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Originally Posted by dapellegrini
With the Reefdoser, can you set it up to run every other day? I was looking at that but it seems like serious over kill to drop one dose per day into my tank. The precision would be nice though. I wish I could program by dose quantity instead of time... Say drop 5ml of this solution in Mon,Wed,Fri - 5ml of this other solution Tues, Thur,Sat....
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The AquaMedic Reefdoser uses the concept of cycle time and on-time. The cycle time is the duration of whatever repeat interval you want. So if you want to dose every other day your cycle time would be 48 hrs. The on-time, of course, is the duration of the dosing period. It does not does by volume; you need to calibrate the dosing time to the volume. So you test it to figure out how long it needs to run to dose, say 5ml, and that becomes your on-time. Let's say that's 1 minute. If you want to does 5ml every other day, you set a cycle time of 48 hrs and an on-time of 1 min.
With the Reefdoser, your cycle time can range from 1 minute to 99hr 59min. The on-time can be as brief as 1 second.
I have one of these and this info is from the manual. I haven't actually set up and programmed mine, although I hope to shortly.