hammmerhead
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Can these units be set to just run at night or is it an hourly thing only?
Bubble magus triple doser
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luther1200
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If you aleady have a contoller than the BRS dosers are great. I agree that if you don't have a controler these seem good.
The answer is no, but kind of. You can get close.
The controller lets you set how many mL of a supplement you want to dose per day on a certain pump. It then let's you choose how you want to break up that mL amount into smaller doses during the day and when to start it.
So for instance:
If you wanted to dose 30mL of alk all at once on Pump1 at 22:00 you can do so.
Alternatively, you could break up that 30mL dose of Alk through the day into 3 smaller ones if you wanted. So the controller will break it up evenly across a 24 hour period. So in this case.
10mL dose at 22:00
10mL dose at 06:00
10mL dose at 14:00
Depending on the amount of supplement you want to dose, the controller will let you split them up to a maximum of 24 smaller doses through out the day.
You can break them up in the following manner:
Dose amount (mL): Cycles/day
1: 1,2
2: 1,2,3,4
3: 1,2,3,4,6
4-5: 1,2,3,4,6,8
6-11: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12
12-160: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24
161-319: 2,3,4,6,8,12,24
320-479: 3,4,6,8,12,24
480-639: 4,6,8,12,24
640-959: 6,8,12,24
960-1279: 8,12,24
1280-1919: 12,24
1920-1999: 24
The controller also forces you to pick start times for a pump based on the other pumps settings. Meaning you can't have 2 pumps run at 12:00. The closest you can dose 2 pumps between each other is 5 minutes. So you can setup a calcium schedule to start at 12:00 on one pump and the closest you could dose alk on a another pump to 12:00 is 12:05. This is a built in feature and can't be overridden. Hope this helps
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FishyBiz
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Fantastic info. :thumbsup:
Argentiner
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Just put my preorder in at TB. Couldn't find anyone with any in-stock.
Triple_B
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What he said.
Looking at buying this or 3 Drews... would love to hear how it's still working for folks. I don't have a lot of spare plug space, so the 1 outlet needed beats the 3 for sure!
Hey guys I have been using my BM doser for a couple of months now. I picked it up from TB aquatics and haven't looked back. I was torn between the BRS dosers and the BM, at the end of the day it came down to cost and not having the extra sockets/timers/ etc. to run the BRS dosers. So far it has been a good choice..
I am not sure about the warranty-give TB aquatics a call or email. They are very responsive.
Reefphile
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Mine has been running for a little over a month. I dose 2 part along with my top off water (luckly my evaporation is just under 1/2g a day so I can get by with the 1999ml daily dosing limitation of the pump). Although it hasn't been running for very long, I have had no problems to date. I also like the fact that it is easy to program.
Andy
Andy
Programing the dosing is a little awkward at first, mostly because the insturctions that I recieved were terrible. Looks like someone took a chinese version and did a strait tranlation with typos.
In any event you are allowed to dose between 1-1999 ml in a 24 hr perioud. Depending on how much you dose you are given a certain number of dosing increments. I don't think you can specifically dose in the time range as you are suggesting-the dosing programs are not that flexible.
In my case, I dose all pumps once a day 5 minutes apart and that works for me, but I could see how someone might want to dose alk at night or something like that. You can obviously begin dosing at a particular time but if you break the dose up i believe it will dose every N hours where N is 24/X and X is the number you break your dose in to (e.g., 1 a day, 2 a day etc).
The typos I'm reading now are terrible too!:lol:
I ordered mine from fishstreet.com in China. I had a motor go bad in the first year. It was covered under the warranty so I sent the unit back and they sent me a whole new doser. They were in contact with me throughout the whole process and the customer service was great. I know a lot of people were worried about the service end of these but through my experience it has been nothing but A+. Hope this helps people make a sound dicision.
AQD_ottawa
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So what happens if the pump failed after the year warranty ran out?
You can not replace the pumps individually on these units, the unit becomes U/S? or at least lost one pump.
I think these are great units but huge concern in regards to servicing especially after warranty. The buy in price is great, but does not become cheap if it fails after a year.
You can not replace the pumps individually on these units, the unit becomes U/S? or at least lost one pump.
I think these are great units but huge concern in regards to servicing especially after warranty. The buy in price is great, but does not become cheap if it fails after a year.
Triple_B
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That's great to hear about customer service, just the type of information I was looking for.
Now I'm curious to know, also, what maintenance is like after that 1 year? Have these been out long enough to even know?
When I contacted Fishshteet they said each pump can be replaced for $40. So i'm assuming that you can replace the pumps if needed.
