Ferrell
Valuable Member
First, I Would love to # Terrance and crew to thank them but can’t find them
I know we’ve all have gotten alarms on our tanks for something going wrong but this has no alarm, at least none that I have.
Jumping right in, I generally test my Alk about every 2-3 days unless I’ve mixed new Alk/Ca for dosing then I’ll check every day for a day or two then back to normal routine. I dose BRS soda ash. Alk generally between 8.7-8.9 and Ph has a steady up down oscillation day/night. 8.3_ to 8.0_
Leading up to the event:
-Sunday night is WC maintenance night
-Mixed and filled Alk and Ca containers and Kalk container (yes I dose all three)
-Sunday checked Alk and all good
-Checked Monday up a little to 9.0 from 8.7
-Worked crazy late Monday night/ Tuesday morning and didn’t have time to test Tuesday at 13:00
-Noticed Ph Tuesday night at work doing strange ups and down trends and Ph over 8.4 so skimmer and doser were shut down per programming,
Normal graph at night
Odd graph that night
-Tested Wednesday morning when I get home and boom up 3 points!
What would cause that? I thought. Turned off all dosing immediately to start tracking it down. What would YOU think it would be?
I retested, same 12.8!
I visually looked at Alk and kalk containers for a “overdose”, nothin
I manually operated pumps for calibration, check
I checked the graph for the dosing pump and it had ran for 15 minutes, off for a few hours (I don’t remember how long and ran for 15 minutes again... why?
Normal dosing graph
Odd dosing graph
-How it was changed is a mystery but the apex was disconnected from fusion because of internet issues about that time and I have no clue
I checked program and it was something crazy like OSC 000:00/625:00/000:00 Then Off. What? Supposed to be
OSC 015:00/000:25/044:35 Then On
If Ph>8.4 Then Off
(Skimmer programmed to go off at Ph>8.4)
Never mind the cause now I needed to get the tank back to normal so I went back in my memory to various R2R members posts on high Alk problems and remembered it must be sloooow, so I left the Kalk doser and Ca Doser on in hopes that it would lower itself through consumption of Alk over a few days to a week. So far so good. I know it takes a few weeks to a month before it may show the ill effects but for now...all good
So, even though no “alarms” went off, the trend lines on the apex still alerted me “something” was off, trend lines had changed and something was wrong. I hope this helps some others out and shows being in tune with your tank and paying attention to trends and not so much numbers could save your tank too. Thank you Neptune Systems for a great product!!! You saved me a bunch of work and money
I know we’ve all have gotten alarms on our tanks for something going wrong but this has no alarm, at least none that I have.
Jumping right in, I generally test my Alk about every 2-3 days unless I’ve mixed new Alk/Ca for dosing then I’ll check every day for a day or two then back to normal routine. I dose BRS soda ash. Alk generally between 8.7-8.9 and Ph has a steady up down oscillation day/night. 8.3_ to 8.0_
Leading up to the event:
-Sunday night is WC maintenance night
-Mixed and filled Alk and Ca containers and Kalk container (yes I dose all three)
-Sunday checked Alk and all good
-Checked Monday up a little to 9.0 from 8.7
-Worked crazy late Monday night/ Tuesday morning and didn’t have time to test Tuesday at 13:00
-Noticed Ph Tuesday night at work doing strange ups and down trends and Ph over 8.4 so skimmer and doser were shut down per programming,
Normal graph at night
Odd graph that night
-Tested Wednesday morning when I get home and boom up 3 points!
What would cause that? I thought. Turned off all dosing immediately to start tracking it down. What would YOU think it would be?
I retested, same 12.8!
I visually looked at Alk and kalk containers for a “overdose”, nothin
I manually operated pumps for calibration, check
I checked the graph for the dosing pump and it had ran for 15 minutes, off for a few hours (I don’t remember how long and ran for 15 minutes again... why?
Normal dosing graph
Odd dosing graph
-How it was changed is a mystery but the apex was disconnected from fusion because of internet issues about that time and I have no clue
I checked program and it was something crazy like OSC 000:00/625:00/000:00 Then Off. What? Supposed to be
OSC 015:00/000:25/044:35 Then On
If Ph>8.4 Then Off
(Skimmer programmed to go off at Ph>8.4)
Never mind the cause now I needed to get the tank back to normal so I went back in my memory to various R2R members posts on high Alk problems and remembered it must be sloooow, so I left the Kalk doser and Ca Doser on in hopes that it would lower itself through consumption of Alk over a few days to a week. So far so good. I know it takes a few weeks to a month before it may show the ill effects but for now...all good
So, even though no “alarms” went off, the trend lines on the apex still alerted me “something” was off, trend lines had changed and something was wrong. I hope this helps some others out and shows being in tune with your tank and paying attention to trends and not so much numbers could save your tank too. Thank you Neptune Systems for a great product!!! You saved me a bunch of work and money
