Hyrdos Dosing Pump and X3

[tonybuonantuono]

Want to use Hydros my X3 to dose my 2 part. My hydros has 1 unused command bus and 2 unused wifi outlets.
Is it possible or do I need a different hydros comtroller?

 

[Danny]

As it is sold the Hydros dosing pump connects to a drive port. Drive ports are on the X4 and X2. You can get a X2 controller only and a buss cable and a terminator and hook it to your X3 and create a collective with your X3 first then add the X2. That will give you 2 drive ports and 2 more sense ports you can use. I would not hook a dosing pump to a wifi power outlet but that is just me. If I was going to use AC to power one with the Hydros I would use the XP8 to do that.

 

[tonybuonantuono]

Thanks

 

[tonybuonantuono]

If I were to add 2 or 3 dosing pumps, would I need a drive port for each?
I have the Hydros power strip with 4 outlets and currently using 2
I could run 2 dosing pumps on the same schedule.
Would also like to add an ATO pump as well and make use of the unused sense port for water level sensor.

 

[Danny]

Yes you will need a drive port for each one. I would not use a wifi power strip on dosing pumps or ATO if it was me. There is the XP8 which has 8 AC outlet and is a controller itself you can use it to power the dosing pumps if you gat the AC adapters for the pumps. It would be cheaper to get two X2 controllers which have 2 ports each along with 2 sense ports each. The Hydros ATO pump also uses a drive port. I actually use a Hydros dosing pump for my ATO pump.