Madtabmans 1st diary with Mimosa x Orange Punch

Link is the first word in my original post :)
 
Odd that link didn’t work.

Let’s try THIS
 
Madtabman said:
Hey @Bill284 good morning if you are around today. I seen someone post about an automatic PH reader/adjuster. Was it you? I can't locate it now. I did bookmark it for a later date. I went in this morning and my rez was 5.4. I'm going to buy one of them. And I'm just googling them. The bluelab one is expensive. I will pay it but i don't want to spend the money till I get some expert/experienced advice off someone who uses one . The simplest one the better for me and the least amount of cables and plugs I hate messy 🤬🤬
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I use the Bluelab doser. Mine is the version without WiFi so I have to press the buttons to set it and to read the pump run time.

I've had it for three grows and it has worked flawlessly.

The doser has only one pump so you have to switch bottles when a plant goes into flower and then switch back after the grow has gone through its phase of dropping pH. It takes about 60 seconds of pump time to purge the standard length hose so the switch over takes only a few minutes. Other than that, it's very much a "set it and forget it" device.

The doser has two probes, one for temperature and one for pH. The temperature probe can't be calibrated but the pH probe should be calibrated every thirty days. I've been using their pH, EC, and temperature monitor since 2017. The temperature and probes vary 1° and <= 0.1 units from the probes on the monitor.

The doser is selling for $450± and it's a one trick pony. Milwaukee Instruments (I think that's the name) might sell a competing product so you might want to check into that.

If you don't need a doser right away, I'll put a bug in your ear about an alternative.

AC Infinity has released and AI based controller and one of the add-ons is a hydro sensor. They haven't announced a pump unit for the controller but they've got the sensor and they've got the controller so it's a no-brainer for them to offer a peristaltic pump that can be hooked up to the controller. The controller is $170 and the hydro unit is $100 so, toss in a peristaltic pump for $100 and you're spending about $100 less than a Bluelab doser and you've got a far more capable set up than the Bluelab that can only run one pump when pH hits a certain level.

The Controller AI + hydro sensor combination destroys the value proposition of Bluelab's $1200 controller and it would offer AC Infinity a product that would let them move from the cannabis world into the much larger agricultural market.

I spoke with someone at AC Infinity about this yesterday and, while he was noncommittal, given that the only thing that's missing is a commodity product like a peristaltic pump, I would expect them add that to their product line.

Having said that, the only drawback is that the AI controller is a new product with constrained supply and, more important, AC Infinity has a track record of announcing products that never come to market (their mid-range humidifier) as well as offering products that are consistently out of stock (their Terraformer).

All in all, if you need it now, pony up for the Bluelab and don't look back. It's not cheap but it works. If you can wait a few months, put in an order for their Controller AI and get that working, and then see if they roll out the hydro sensor in Q1 2025, as they've stated on their website.
 
Delps8 said:
I use the Bluelab doser. Mine is the version without WiFi so I have to press the buttons to set it and to read the pump run time.

I've had it for three grows and it has worked flawlessly.

The doser has only one pump so you have to switch bottles when a plant goes into flower and then switch back after the grow has gone through its phase of dropping pH. It takes about 60 seconds of pump time to purge the standard length hose so the switch over takes only a few minutes. Other than that, it's very much a "set it and forget it" device.

The doser has two probes, one for temperature and one for pH. The temperature probe can't be calibrated but the pH probe should be calibrated every thirty days. I've been using their pH, EC, and temperature monitor since 2017. The temperature and probes vary 1° and <= 0.1 units from the probes on the monitor.

The doser is selling for $450± and it's a one trick pony. Milwaukee Instruments (I think that's the name) might sell a competing product so you might want to check into that.

If you don't need a doser right away, I'll put a bug in your ear about an alternative.

AC Infinity has released and AI based controller and one of the add-ons is a hydro sensor. They haven't announced a pump unit for the controller but they've got the sensor and they've got the controller so it's a no-brainer for them to offer a peristaltic pump that can be hooked up to the controller. The controller is $170 and the hydro unit is $100 so, toss in a peristaltic pump for $100 and you're spending about $100 less than a Bluelab doser and you've got a far more capable set up than the Bluelab that can only run one pump when pH hits a certain level.

The Controller AI + hydro sensor combination destroys the value proposition of Bluelab's $1200 controller and it would offer AC Infinity a product that would let them move from the cannabis world into the much larger agricultural market.

I spoke with someone at AC Infinity about this yesterday and, while he was noncommittal, given that the only thing that's missing is a commodity product like a peristaltic pump, I would expect them add that to their product line.

Having said that, the only drawback is that the AI controller is a new product with constrained supply and, more important, AC Infinity has a track record of announcing products that never come to market (their mid-range humidifier) as well as offering products that are consistently out of stock (their Terraformer).

All in all, if you need it now, pony up for the Bluelab and don't look back. It's not cheap but it works. If you can wait a few months, put in an order for their Controller AI and get that working, and then see if they roll out the hydro sensor in Q1 2025, as they've stated on their website.
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Yeah that's the one you have mentioned before somewhere. Thankyou 🫡
 
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