Mastertronic Essential - New tester coming soon?

[Texasnano]

Still no date and price?

 

[CasperOe]

Still no date and price?

Haven't seen anything.. Went with the RF Smart Tester instead, lost patience

 

[parclife]

Haven't seen anything.. Went with the RF Smart Tester instead, lost patience

How are they doing for you? I was torn between those and the Mastertronic. Went Mastertronic in the end

 

[CasperOe]

How are they doing for you? I was torn between those and the Mastertronic. Went Mastertronic in the end

Having two units, it's a bit of a mixed review so far - but it could come down to the reagents being used as I have not swapped around to fully determine the errors I am seeing on one of them.

Phosphate - This unit has been running perfectly and like clockwork since I installed it. It is consistently within 0.1 PPM +/- off the Hanna HI736 checker. I am very please with this unit and while I don't fully trust an automated tester, I have allowed this one to somewhat control phosphate dosing on my DT using a Reef Factory Pro X1 dosing pump.

Magnesium - I have experienced a variety of issues with this unit, most of which I (as well as RF support) expect to be related to dodgy reagents. I have replaced reagents three times, done numerous calibrations and verifications and a variety of other fault finding. The first couple of measures were well within what I test with my Red Sea test kit as well as my Trident - since then it started to drift landing abt. 300 ppm off before failing completely.

I did have faulty reading of constant 3010 ppm before it started giving me a number of different error codes. After working with RF Support for about two weeks, I am awaiting a new unit and new reagents.

It is worth noticing that the second unit has been bought to test for Nitrate - reagents have not quite been released yet so as for the functionality on Magnesium, I don't really dare!

I do run two of the dosing pumps controlling my nutrients levels and I am very, very happy with these. Probably the best dosing pumps I have ever used.

 

[Texasnano]

Yeah. Guess still working out bugs. I was gonna pull the trigger on rf but will give it a little while longer

 

[Superlightman]

I saw that kamoer also bring up and automatic tester

 

[smartwater101]

MUST. HAVE. THIS. SOON.

 

[tmccaff]

Kamoer Reef Master Spa looks better. I owned a Mastertronic way too much maintenance.

 

[ssster2020]

Not sure if this is relevant but I just bought an Alkatronic for an approximate 20% price reduction, does this mean that they are attempting to get rid of stock prior to release of Mastertronic Essentials?

 

[Superlightman]

Not sure if this is relevant but I just bought an Alkatronic for an approximate 20% price reduction, does this mean that they are attempting to get rid of stock prior to release of Mastertronic Essentials?

could be

 

[tmccaff]

Why buy the mastertronic essentials over the Reef Spa curious?

 

[tmccaff]

The Reef Spa can dose as well with added dosing pump. The essentials can't without added equipment. I wouldn't buy anything from Focustronic again, To get parts is ridiculous.