I have my Dosers hooked up for B-ionic now what?

[Baldwin]

I know that Reggie had helped me before and if your still here Reggie please help again. I need the codes to dose 10 mL in the morning and 10 mL in the evening with one part dosing 30 mintues after the other for both doses.

 

[rsuplido]

Let's say you want to dose 10ml at 8am and 8pm of alk, and 10ml of Ca at 8:30am and 8:30pm using 1ml/min dosing pumps. Here's the Apex code:

For Alk:
OSC 480:00/010:00/230:00 Then ON

For Ca:
OSC 510:00/010:00/200:00 Then ON


Explanation:
Since the main loop of the dosing is constant at 12 hours between dosing the total minutes in the OSC command should equal 12 hours (720 minutes).

The first parameter is to specify how many minutes to wait before dosing. For th alk example, 480 minutes equals 8 hours which is 8am. 510 minutes for Ca means 8:30am.

The second parameter is how many minutes to dose. 10 mins equal 10ml.

The third parameter is the wait time to make the whole loop. In this case it's 720 - (1st parameter + 2nd parameter).

If you want to change the number of minutes to dose, make sure you change the third parameter to compensate. So let's say if you want to dose alk for 17 minutes and 23 seconds, the whole statement will change to:

OSC 480:00/017:23/222:37 Then ON

Note that the total minutes when you add the 3 parameters is still 720 minutes (12 hours). Also note that you are adding time here and not decimal values.

 

[Baldwin]

Thanks Reggie, I think I understand. So all I do is post-

OSC 480:00/010:00/230:00 Then ON

in the white box for alk and the other code for calcium to start with. Should I change the outlet type to doser or what should the outlet type be?

 

[rsuplido]

Use 'Advanced' as the Control Type and the program goes to the Advanced Setup box.

Btw, for low wattage devices such as dosers, use outlets 4 and 8 (right most outlets) for them.

 

[Baldwin]

Ok Reggie thanks for the info your the man. I plan on getting this setup tomorrow so hopefully everything goes smoothly.

 

[Baldwin]

Reggie this is exactly what I have in the white boxes-

For alkalinity-
Fallback OFF
OSC 480:00/010:00/230:00 Then ON

For calcium-
Fallback OFF
OSC 510:00/010:00/200:00 Then ON

What is the Fallback and should it be there?

 

[Baldwin]

Also should the control be manual on or auto on the dosers?

 

[rsuplido]

Fallback is for just in case your energy bar loses communication with the Apex head unit. Your doser will turn off.

It should be in Auto.

 

[Baldwin]

Ok thanks reggie, one more question, when the doser turns off the fluid left in the lines wont drip out over time will it? It seems it would just be suctioned in the line but im not sure.

 

[rsuplido]

It shouldn't. There is vacuum in there. Make sure the exit hose doesn't touch the sump water btw. Just in case the vacuum breaks, it won't siphon your sump water back to your b-ionic containers.

You also need to manually turn on your pumps for the meantime until it starts dripping, then switch it back to auto.

 

[Baldwin]

Yeah I did that, and measured it out, it is setup right as long as the vacuum doesnt break I should be good.

 

[Baldwin]

Reggie what if I decided to dose 10 mL once a day would Im uncertain of how to do that?

 

[Baldwin]

I need to dose the calcium and alk at 5 ml once per day. I have only dosed the 10 ml once and the dkh jumped from 8 to 9. I know I have soft corals and a couple lps but 5 ml per day semms really low for a 120? Can you give an example of dosing each once per day at 5 ml. Then between the examples I should be able to tweek it on my own.

 

[Baldwin]

Wow Reggie I feel dumb, after retracing my steps I found that I was supposed to dilute the B-ionic which I did not. Which is tje reason such a small dose raised the dkh one point. I would still like to know the codes for 10 ml once a day though!