Could you increase the maximums on dosing schedule?

[scolson]

I've been using a simple 40ml/minute dosing pump to dose water into my kalk reactor. Currently running around 3500ml a day so I need to fake the system into thinking my pump is actually only running at 2ml/min so I can set a total dose per pump in the schedule in the 500ml range.

I know most people do this with a constant slow drip but I'm using what the pump I have and making it work. It be nice if I didn't have to fake out Hydros to do it.

Would also love to see the maximum doses per day raised from 48 to 96 (every 15 minutes), or even better 144 (every 10 minutes).

These changes would put the dosing logic in Hydros on par with a GHL doser.

 

[Danny]

I do something similar with my AWC. I use a dosing pump and a schedule. I calibrated and told the Hydros that the rate the actual rate divided by 10. I then entered the daily rate I want divided by 10 to get around the 500ml a day limit. Below in the first screen shot is the pump setup. The actual pump flow rate is 83ml a minute. The second screenshot is the schedule. It is set to 275.7ml per day but that will actually flow 2757ml per day. I am not sure if that does anything to the accuracy but for AWC that is not too important. It is a dual head dosing pump so it is adding and removing at the same time.

 

[scolson]

That's the same setup I use, I suspect it is not as accurate but for kalk, it doesn't need to be. I also include the multiplier in the dosing pump name to help me remember to multiply correctly. In my case the pump is named DT Kalk (20X). I also update the schedule name when I change the dose as a memory aid so I know the value in the slider is not what is really getting dosed.

 

[MMcKenna1029]

I second this request. Getting my kalk dosing setup and while the system can be cheated its seems odd you would have to... The dosing is pretty restrictive as is.

Thanks,
Matt