Ozone help

mburnickas

mburnickas

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Hi everyone,
I just got my Redsea aquazone about 6 hours ago. Plugged it all in as instructed (not to hard) and I have a quesiton. The ORP and probe work just fine (turns on and off); tank was around 220 mv.

But the ozone display is weird. When on the unit always states 109 or 111 mv when I switch to read the ozone. I can't adjust the ozone at all. I can turn the knob to min or max and the number does not change.

I removed it since I do not feel ok about this since the knob does nothing when it states (by the light) it is producing ozone to reach setpoint.

Any help since I am lost. Please
 
Mike,

I really hope someone here helps you out, because I've been inquiring about that particular unit by red sea, they say they are nice having everything all in one.

Earlier today, I got off the phone with Marine Depot that told me the unit has two knobs, one is to add or decrease ozone and the other is made to set the ORP.

Those units are said to be really accurate to I don't know why you are getting two types of readings; hopefully someone that owns one will chime in and help you.

You did post in the right area because SPS people are quicker to respond than the other threads.

Mike

p.s
I remember him saying that the digital display is only to read the ORP setting and that the knob to increase or decrease ozone will not move the digital setting, that was made clear to me.
 
Not quite sure what you are saying. When you have the switch all the way to the left and turn the ozone knob the value doesn't change? If that's what you are saying it sounds like you have a defective unit.
 
mburnickas,
I would recommend you shutting the ozone off for a few days and let your ORP probe break in.
They are notoriously inaccurate for the first several days to a week when introduced to a tank for the first time.
hth,
Sean
 
Thanks guys.

Let me clarify this since it is hard with a 4-month old!

Mikeguerrero & ObscurityKnocks are both right.

There is a switch on the RedSea to read tank set-point, to set set-point and increase and decrease ozone. Now when I move the switch to ozone (to the far left) and turn the knob, the ozone level on the display does not move. It stays around 100 v. I can turn to the knob to the max or min and nothing changes; while the unit is on.

So I think ObscurityKnocks is right. The unit has something wrong.

The kicker is the ORP probe is reading very correct. So SeanT is right too but again the ORP is reading very accurate vs the tank.
 
I just called Red Sea. They stated it take about 1-week for the unit to read ozone correct. She said the readings on the display will not be right for sometime.

I do not know if I buy it but the unit does shut off and on. I will wait one week then see what happens.

I know my Toadstool closed up for some off reason. Either ozone or carbon????
 
There are 3 position on that switch. One is Actual ORP, second is how many mg/hr you want to produce and third is your cut off point. Once you set your mg/hr then you move the switch to cut off point, set that then move to ORP and leave it alone. Once your in ORP mode you're not suppose to change the dials. Dont want to insult your intellegence but did you take the cap off the end of the probe and clean it. It has been done before. :)
 
No insulting me here. I will take any advice him since I have more fish coming on Friday (last batch).

The orp probe is in the water (about 4") and I can see the metal probe portion...

Next on the unit I can see the orp of the water and can set the set-point. Now the unit DOES shut off and on based on my set point.

Now the thing that scares the BLEEP out of me is for the life of me I can NOT adjust the ozone level. I can turn the knon to max and min and the display never changes. I feel stupid here but it does not change.

Right now the set-point is set to 292 mv on set-poinnt till I can see the ozone level I want. The unit DOES turn on and off.

I called Red sea and the TS person said give it a week. Some how I do not buy it. ORP is not intergral to ozone output....My unit (ozone level wise) always stated 109 V when on and 000 when off; when switch is on ozone.

I am losing my mind with this ozone machine. I wonder if I made the right move now...:confused:

Again any help I will GLADELY TAKE since I do not want to lose my fish/coral etc.

OH, my unit is only a 50 mg/hr so how it reads over 1XX on ozone level is out of my "brain".
 
If you cannot adjust the mg/hr level then the unit is defective. I would not give it a week. I would pack it back up in the box and tell them to send you another one. I have the 100 mg unit and it works fine. Two questions. How big is your tank and what does the read out say when you have the switch on ORP ?
 
my tank is 75 gal

My orp read ouot states 298 whe I have the set-point to 303.

The ozone always states either 109 or 111 m..whatever that is.
 
Well it sounds like its running full out when its on. Sounds defective to me. Once you get your ORP up to where you want it, it usually takes much less ozone to keep it there. So without the ability to dial it down you will be over dosing. I would get it replaced. :)
 
no 360 to 380 is not to high. I would use 380 on the high side

I think I am getting the run around from Red Sea. I am doing to call marine depot, email them and dispute my cc till I get this resolved..

Starting to drive me nuts on the lack of support from Red Sea.
 
I'm in the market to purchase a ozonizer this weekend and it was between the RedSea Deluxe 50/mg or the Sanders 50/mg with a milwaukee controller.

I have a 72 gallon reef and I've been reading all threads on Ozone for about 1 week straight.

With the sanders which is high quality German made; it has one simple knob that can dial you up or down with ozone.

Then it has two connections in the front to pull in dry air and then deliver the ozone to your skimmer; mine will be the Deltec AP600 which is ozone ready.

My sanders will be connected to the Milwaukee controller that has a set point knob with digital display, showing you what the ORP is in your tank.

When the ORP reaches this set point say 380 mv then it will shut off the sanders ozonizer and not fire it back up until the 380 drops well below 380.

The Milwaukee controller also has a flashing red light that blinks when the ozone is being injected into your skimmer, so you know that ozone is running.

Now the knob on the Sanders has increments of ozone inject 5,10,15,20, or 50 g. It's really up the aquarist and how much he wants to inject of ozone.

You also save more purchasing the items separate; and you know what does what.

From this post I'm seeing that the REDSea is either defective or too complicated to use.

Like I posted earlier, Marine Depot says the digital display reads the set point of OZone say 380. Then I imagine it defaults automatically to what the tank is reading.

It does not move up or down in digits to the ozone that is injected via the knob; that's what he said.

You have to guess via the increments how much you are injecting. I though it would read from 0 to 50 g and let you know what is entering, however he said it doesn't do that.

Can someone come forward on this board and clearly let us know in detail how the LED display functions with the knobs????

Thanks,

Mike
 
mikeguerrero, I have the unit and whoever you are talking to doesn't know what they are talking about.

The digital display shows 3 different things depending on where the switch is. Going from left to right with the switch it first shows what the ozone level you are injecting at when you turn the ozone know the display shows what level the ozone will be injected at. If you move the switch to the center you set the target ORP level when you turn the ORP knob it shows you the ORP level that the unit will shut off at when reached. Then if you move the switch all the way to the right it shows the current ORP level that is being read by the probe.

The unit as is being described is defective and needs to be replaced. The only reading that takes a week is the ORP level that is read by the probe.
 
ObscurityKnocks,

Thanks to your post I'm going to reconsider on this product; the dude from Marine Depot is an idiot.

He clearly didn't know what he is talking about; I'm led to believe that this particular unit is defected.

I almost picked up the Sanders and Milwaukee controller for lack of info on this RedSea unit that appears to have more control via all the settings.

Once again thanks,

Mike G
 
Well I was going to flip out on Red Sea so I called Marine Depot (MD). Talked to Walter there. Very nice guy and walked me through some things.

He said my unit is wrong. So I am sending it back for a replacement. I wish Red Sea would learn somethings from MD.
 
told me to send broken one back then they will ship out new one.

Or I could buy another and then I ship old one back when I get the new one. Then when they get broken (old) one back, they credit m.e

I said I am not in a rush here. Broken one goes back tomorrow.
 
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