Trident vs Alkatronic vs KH Director vs kh guardian
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mitch91175
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Don’t even use it anymore. Alerts from Alkatronic are perfect so I used the PM1 for something else.
My last Alkatronic reading was 8.12 and the Apex is showing 8.09 right now... close enough for me
I agree, that's close and for $10 I can't really go wrong. Has anyone found a cable that reports closer/more accurate readings?
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Well I finally got a Trident ordered, will share my experience with it once up and running.
mitch91175
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Congrats and I hope you like it.
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Thanks, I hope so too. I have a DOS but will obviously wait awhile before turning over control
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Trident is installed, running first tests, installion was simple and straight forward.
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Test came back pretty spot on for my system.
mitch91175
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OMG
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Trident calibration was spot on. So far so good. The unit is super quiet and so far was what I was hoping for
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I read that soon the reagent for Trident will be available on online vendors soon with the 6 month supply for $99.
mitch91175
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Anyone still looking for a Trident?
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A lot of people on the Facebook page are buying as quick as posted.
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The 6 month supply of reagents are out now for $99.
They have fixed the leaking reagent issues.
So far I am very happy with the Trident. It’s super quiet, minimal waste, controls my DOS, has been precise and accurate. I am very happy with my decision.
They have fixed the leaking reagent issues.
So far I am very happy with the Trident. It’s super quiet, minimal waste, controls my DOS, has been precise and accurate. I am very happy with my decision.
AMS has lost their lead engineer and the project has stalled. They also state that when back on track they are looking to develop an interface to work with other alk monitors which is really good news. It has been suggested to me that in the meantime the best setup with a dastaco/alkatronic etc is to tune down the dastaco output to just below required levels and let the alk monitor dose small amounts of carbonate to fine tune back up to required levels. That way they dastaco never needs to be turned off. A spike failsafe I suspect would be fine if using an apex to control upper and lower limits.
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Can someone summarize the thread please. Read a few pages but too much.. Overall what was the best monitor ?
Trident - Monitoring only 3 tests
Reef Bot Monitor / dosing multiple
Alkatronic - 1 test only (Alk or cal/mag)
KH Guardian - 1 test ALk
KH Director- Monitor / dosing 1 test ALK
KH director you can choose to monitor or monitor and dose. Anyone have any experience with KH Director?
Trident - Monitoring only 3 tests
Reef Bot Monitor / dosing multiple
Alkatronic - 1 test only (Alk or cal/mag)
KH Guardian - 1 test ALk
KH Director- Monitor / dosing 1 test ALK
KH director you can choose to monitor or monitor and dose. Anyone have any experience with KH Director?
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You can monitor and or dose with the KH Director. I have 3 of them, I calibrate the PH probe every 6 months, all my tanks are steady at 7.5KH. One is controlled by a calcium reactor and is connected to a P4. I have a stand alone unit for my frag tank which is also monitor and dosing and has a second slave doser connected to it which is dosing aquaforest 3 part.
ReeferBud
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Hadn’t stopped by this thread in a while. Great to see the progress! Thanks to everyone for figuring it out.
I’m about to run out of reagent and just purchased the 4L 0.1N sulfuric acid from amazon. Great improvement and can’t wait to try it out.
I’m about to run out of reagent and just purchased the 4L 0.1N sulfuric acid from amazon. Great improvement and can’t wait to try it out.
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