Avast Marine K1 & pH Probe

[nickkohrn]

I’m picking up an Avast Marine K1 kalk stirrer today, and I noticed that it has a port for a pH probe. It seems that will be useful for monitoring the pH inside of the stirrer to ensure that a fully-saturated solution is being dosed. It will be helpful to receive alerts when the pH drops, indicating that more calcium hydroxide needs added.

If you have this model of kalk stirrer and use a pH probe, what has your experience been?

I assume the probe will need cleaned and calibrated regularly, which is fine, but I want to ensure that I’m not missing anything important.

 

[Water Dog]

Here’s a discussion I started on this very same subject... lots of good information here. Hope this helps!

Avast Kalk Stirrer & pH probe

For those using an Avast Kalk Stirrer, do you guys use a pH probe as an indicator to add more kalk powder? I’ve read that fully saturated kalk has a pH of 12.4. I’d like to be sure that if using a reactor or a stirrer, I’m actually dosing fully saturated kalk solution and stay on top of...

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[nickkohrn]

Here’s a discussion I started on this very same subject... lots of good information here. Hope this helps!

Avast Kalk Stirrer & pH probe

For those using an Avast Kalk Stirrer, do you guys use a pH probe as an indicator to add more kalk powder? I’ve read that fully saturated kalk has a pH of 12.4. I’d like to be sure that if using a reactor or a stirrer, I’m actually dosing fully saturated kalk solution and stay on top of...

www.reef2reef.com

I don’t know how I overlooked that. Thank you!