Focustronic releases details on the Mastertronic:

smartwater101 · Aug 17, 2019

I was surprised there wasn't a post about this already, but we finally have some more details about the Mastertronic! I'm a big fan of my Alkatronic and really want a auto tester for Nitrate and Phosphate, so this is def on my radar. It'll be interesting to see how they price it relative to something like the ReefBot, but I guess we'll see. No release date as of yet.

smartwater101 · Aug 17, 2019

Side note: While at reefapalooza today, I spoke with Lou Ekus of Tropic Marin. He said ReefBot owners are loving the TM test kits, but he hasn't spoken to Focustronic about the Mastertronic as of yet. I've been hearing a lot of good things about the TM nitrate kit, but hadn't tried it yet, and he was nice enough to give me a kit. Crossing my fingers the Mastertronic is out soon so I don't have to keep testing manually #firstworldproblems

Will-Yum · Aug 18, 2019

I can't wait for this to be available to sit next to my Alkatronic. I hope its priced cheaper than the alkatronic since you have to buy others test kits, no LCD display.

mitch91175 · Aug 21, 2019

Making space for this for sure.

Will-Yum · Aug 21, 2019

Just last night I read a FB post from Focustronic that said they're working hard to have it released at the end of the year.

SneakyTortuga · Aug 21, 2019

i Wonder if focustronic has a booth at macna. I’d love to pick there brains on how it’s intended to work

AZMSGT · Aug 21, 2019

How much.. That's all I want to know.

Silver14SS · Aug 21, 2019

I’ve been very pleased with my Alkatronic and Dosetronic, I will likely end up with one of these as well

SneakyTortuga said:
i Wonder if focustronic has a booth at macna. I’d love to pick there brains on how it’s intended to work

I don’t see them listed https://macnaconference.org/2019/exhibit/

SneakyTortuga · Aug 21, 2019

Silver14SS said:
I’ve been very pleased with my Alkatronic and Dosetronic, I will likely end up with one of these as well

I don’t see them listed https://macnaconference.org/2019/exhibit/

You never know! I know some vendors on that floor plan that don’t have a booth. I’m hoping they may be a last minute add on

Will-Yum · Aug 21, 2019

I'm hoping they price it the same or below the Trident. If not they will probably push buyers away.
I think if they do that they could get buyers that haven't bought the Alkatronic to push them sales up too.

smartwater101 · Aug 21, 2019

Silver14SS said:
I’ve been very pleased with my Alkatronic and Dosetronic, I will likely end up with one of these as well

I don’t see them listed https://macnaconference.org/2019/exhibit/

@SneakyTortuga

Coralvue is the distributor. They would be the ones to visit. They didn't have much to say at Reefapalooza (at least in term of release date.) But with other competitors (like ION Director) getting updatess, we'll hopefully get some more concrete info.

smartwater101 · Aug 21, 2019

Will-Yum said:
I'm hoping they price it the same or below the Trident. If not they will probably push buyers away.
I think if they do that they could get buyers that haven't bought the Alkatronic to push them sales up too.

If its similar tech to ReefBot (sounds like it is) that would be the competitor to compare $ to. Trident does 3, and requires a controller to even function. Mastertronic does 4 (or more in the future) and is a standalone unit. Def a big difference.

What I want to know is, can you swap out tests like Reefbot? It says it uses "existing reagents from the best test kits on the market" so I'm assuming yes. Unless they worked out a deal with certain vendors to buy their reagents in bulk or something... we need info soon!

Daniel@R2R · Aug 21, 2019

smartwater101 said:
I was surprised there wasn't a post about this already, but we finally have some more details about the Mastertronic! I'm a big fan of my Alkatronic and really want a auto tester for Nitrate and Phosphate, so this is def on my radar. It'll be interesting to see how they price it relative to something like the ReefBot, but I guess we'll see. No release date as of yet.

Very cool!

Will-Yum · Aug 21, 2019

smartwater101 said:
If its similar tech to ReefBot (sounds like it is) that would be the competitor to compare $ to. Trident does 3, and requires a controller to even function. Mastertronic does 4 (or more in the future) and is a standalone unit. Def a big difference.

What I want to know is, can you swap out tests like Reefbot? It says it uses "existing reagents from the best test kits on the market" so I'm assuming yes. Unless they worked out a deal with certain vendors to buy their reagents in bulk or something... we need info soon!

You can use whatever test kit you prefer to use. They stated that on their FB page. If you want to use red sea for calcium and API for alk or vise versa.

smartwater101 · Aug 21, 2019

Will-Yum said:
You can use whatever test kit you prefer to use. They stated that on their FB page. If you want to use red sea for calcium and API for alk or vise versa.

Which means we could do Alk instead of owning an Alkatronic. I wonder if they would put limitations on Alk kits as to not eat away at the sales of another product... doubtful they would. certainly hope not anyway... Did they specifically mention Alk in their post?

Will-Yum · Aug 21, 2019

Focustronic said they wont be at MACNA but they're sure Coralvue will have a few to sale.

They also said if you have any questions to reach out to Focustronic directly and they will answer anything.

Will-Yum · Aug 21, 2019

smartwater101 said:
Which means we could do Alk instead of owning an Alkatronic. I wonder if they would put limitations on Alk kits as to not eat away at the sales of another product... doubtful they would. certainly hope not anyway... Did they specifically mention Alk in their post?

So sorry I meant PO4 not "alk".

Daniel@R2R · Aug 22, 2019

I kinda wonder the same thing. Will they allow alk to work since they already have the alk monitor? The tech will certainly be present in the device to measure alk. I'll be curious to see how they decide to navigate that.