Great point.
haha surprisingly you still have Ecotech pumps. When I redo mine I got 2 plus’s 4s and two of the smaller ones. Remove all the drivers and cords.
They didn’t “just” purchase Neptune…. It’s been a couple years I believe at this point now. Can tell by the BRS videos of the last couple years how heavily they promote Neptune over anything else or rarely mentioning anything else
If you are referring to the Hydros you make a collective and once a controller is a member of the collective all inputs and outputs are shared with the collective as a whole. So it acts like a large controller consisting of all the members. I have 9 controllers in my collective now. I added them a little at a time over the two years. I replaced a Archon with it and so far I have not found anything I wanted to do with it I was doing with the Archon.
Guess you're stuck with GHL lol. Very robust system that should last you for quite a while. 10,000,000 on and off cycles tested on the Power Bar 6E. Who else can say that. Programming the P4 is easy if you understand Boolean Algebra which most people have seem to have forgotten since the 9th grade lol. German engineering can't be beat for quality and reliability IMO. Food and beverage are the largest manufacturing groups in the world and 80% of the beverage production lines around the world are manufactured by 2 Germany companies. 15% by an Italian/French company and the rest from all other countries combined including the USA. These numbers are rounded to the nearest 5%. I am talking complete turnkey production lines. I recently retired from one of those Germany companies, so I have a pretty good knowledge of their manufacturing quality. I have the GHL Profilux 4 and am extremally happy with it. All my probes are at 2yrs of use and still very accurate. Even the conductivity probe is still reliable. That's what you get with high quality lab grade measuring devices and yes there are differences in so called lab grade sensors.
“and tests ALL major water parameters and minor trace elements”.
I think they are referring to it linking up to the Mastertronic. It will also link to the Alkatroinc or the Kamoer KH Carer. I have the KH Carer and really like it. Below are the readings I get from my KH Carer on my Hydros.
You can still do complex things with it also. I have my RODI and mixing station automated using the Hydros. It refill my DI storage automatically and transfers the water from my mixing tank to my fresh saltwater tank when the fresh saltwater tank goes low and the mix tank is ready to use. It then refills the mix tank with DI from the RODI. All I have to do is add the salt mix and press a button when it is ready to use. It also controls the Auto water changes along with ATO and All for Reef dosing.
Yeah they are referring to the fact that the mastertronic and alkatronic are compatible with the hydros. So yes, hydros can do all of those things with the mastertronic and alkatronic connected to it. Or with the new Kamoer kH Carer is also compatible, and later this year hydros has its own alkalinity testing device coming out also, which can also do salinity. So through hydros by itself, hydros will have alkalinity, salinity, pH, ORP, and temp testing. And as of right now to get any others, that can be integrated into hydros, you’d need the mastertronic to do stuff like calcium, magnesium, iron, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, iodine, and OLI
I’ve attached a screenshot of my Hydros app. Works great!
Yes but you are using mastertronic correct? Your post makes it a little misleading what hydros does itself and doesn’t. I’m hydros all the way, don’t get me wrong. I just like to make it clear to people so they don’t feel misled
When a particular company like BRS doesn’t stock a competitor controller properly, doesn’t sell the complete product line, throws away already completed competitor product highlights after the merger, you’re not getting a fair gauge either. It’s just a lame tactic to control a narrative with sales since the new controller is seen as a legitimate threat. With this post, it’s showing that BRS can be a shill for Neptune all it wants in its confines, but outside its bubble, there are considerably better options and the community sees it.
Nothing is misleading. Mastertronic is a facilitator like Trident that you buy separately from the controller itself. Only difference is one is third party and the other isn’t. It’s more semantics than anything else.
No I agree with what you are saying. But I’m Just saying, the way you made it sound in 2 posts made the guy think hydros on its own does it all. Be awesome if it did, maybe one day it will, with how well they have been coming out with new products, but in reality right now, it’s the mastertronic doing it, mastertronic is compatible with the hydros and can graph the readings and control the mastertronic
Hydros is releasing this year for you to test alk from it hydro unit. So yes hydros will be able to do some things it self.
Yea I’m well aware…. But that’s only Alk and salinity. He was making it out like hydros itself will test everything
