Versa control

[jtichenor]

The Ecotech Vera doser is one of the best products for doing large volume dosing jobs. If it could be controlled, both in dosing speed and in on/off, by the Hydros it would be very useful in a large number of situations.
For example, pushing 1+ gallons of ato water through a kalk stirrer per day. A duty cycle that is pushing the limits of most small head dosers. The Hydros could also potentially utilize the water level sensor to stop kalk dosing if the level in the sump gets too high. Ideally, the Hydros would use the Alk measurment (X10) to subsidize the kalk dosing with 2-part and adjust the 2-part automatically based on the kalk dose (proactively) & alk readings. ie, on high evap days, the kalk dose is greater so less 2-part is needed.

Another use case is accurate auto-water changes. On a schedule, the Hydros would trigger the versa to fill the sump with fresh salt mix to a sensored level and then drain the sump back down to the normal working level. This would only need one versa and is a much more accurate way to do auto-water changes since the Hydros is controlling on/off based on water level sensors instead of simply running two dosers for a set time (where one could be pulling more than the other).

Another use case is pushing large amounts of water through the calcium reactor where you need constant on-time but the rate may need to be adjusted by the Hydros based on Alk (x10).

 

[John Neuzil]

I'd be really surprised if the company in competition would play nice with Hydros.

 

[Danny]

The Ecotech Vera doser is one of the best products for doing large volume dosing jobs. If it could be controlled, both in dosing speed and in on/off, by the Hydros it would be very useful in a large number of situations.
For example, pushing 1+ gallons of ato water through a kalk stirrer per day. A duty cycle that is pushing the limits of most small head dosers. The Hydros could also potentially utilize the water level sensor to stop kalk dosing if the level in the sump gets too high. Ideally, the Hydros would use the Alk measurment (X10) to subsidize the kalk dosing with 2-part and adjust the 2-part automatically based on the kalk dose (proactively) & alk readings. ie, on high evap days, the kalk dose is greater so less 2-part is needed.

Another use case is accurate auto-water changes. On a schedule, the Hydros would trigger the versa to fill the sump with fresh salt mix to a sensored level and then drain the sump back down to the normal working level. This would only need one versa and is a much more accurate way to do auto-water changes since the Hydros is controlling on/off based on water level sensors instead of simply running two dosers for a set time (where one could be pulling more than the other).

Another use case is pushing large amounts of water through the calcium reactor where you need constant on-time but the rate may need to be adjusted by the Hydros based on Alk (x10).

The X10 will have 4 precision stepper motor type dosing pumps built into it. You could use two of those for AWC. I think you would need two for Alk testing and the third could be just a Hydros dosing pump. If not doing AWC then the 4 pumps will be able to do what you want. I use the Hydros dosing pump for ATO and have not had any issues. My tank is just 42 gallons but the pump is 35ft from the tank.