Quick lesson for Apex users

[Gatorpa]

Here’s a quick and helpful lesson for Apex users.
Sunday am I changed my Alk reagent, was in a bit of a hurry, I thought I made sure my hoses were all good but evidently not.
the next test had my Ca+ jump by 100 points, I did a manual test and it was about 450(in line with where it had been).
I figured I would let it sit and perhaps shake out. The next day I went to over 790! ( on the trident test).
It was easy to verify that I did get a Ca+ OD as the level of 2 part hadn’t changed. I had shut the DOS off just to be sure.
manual test again showed 450 ish.
I opened the tray and moved the lines around, primed the reagents and re ran a test….Boom back to where it should be.

2 lessons, if a test doesn’t make sense repeat manually, double check all the hoses.

It also affected my Mg reading.

 

[Dburr1014]

Here’s a quick and helpful lesson for Apex users.
Sunday am I changed my Alk reagent, was in a bit of a hurry, I thought I made sure my hoses were all good but evidently not.
the next test had my Ca+ jump by 100 points, I did a manual test and it was about 450(in line with where it had been).
I figured I would let it sit and perhaps shake out. The next day I went to over 790! ( on the trident test).
It was easy to verify that I did get a Ca+ OD as the level of 2 part hadn’t changed. I had shut the DOS off just to be sure.
manual test again showed 450 ish.
I opened the tray and moved the lines around, primed the reagents and re ran a test….Boom back to where it should be.

2 lessons, if a test doesn’t make sense repeat manually, double check all the hoses.

It also affected my Mg reading.

So this is a trident lesson.
I have an apex but no trident.
I learned nothing. LOL

 

[Gatorpa]

So this is a trident lesson.
I have an apex but no trident.
I learned nothing. LOL

Its only a matter of time before you buy a trident…

 

[moz71]

Its only a matter of time before you buy a trident…

I will never get one! Only trust my manual testing.! Lol

 

[Gatorpa]

I will never get one! Only trust my manual testing.! Lol

To each his own.

How often do you test per day?.

The trident to me was the biggest reason to get the apex in the first place.

 

[moz71]

To each his own.

How often do you test per day?.

The trident to me was the biggest reason to get the apex in the first place.

I test every 4 day to 5 days . Dialed in and extremely stable with my dosing schedule. Until I go and start messing with things like changing timer for doser. Lol. I just gotta stop tinkering. Lol

 

[Gatorpa]

I test every 4 day to 5 days . Dialed in and extremely stable with my dosing schedule. Until I go and start messing with things like changing timer for doser. Lol. I just gotta stop tinkering. Lol

I like for the piece of mind and watching trends.
And I hate testing. Being color blind doesn’t help