Water Chemistry Probes

[wesman42]

Hi, I'm relatively new to reefkeeping. That being said, I'm also a Computer Science student. My plans are to figure out how the water chemistry probes work / function and whether or not these are the only available products on the market for reading water chemistry.

Also, another question I had was if anyone knew why the cost of a marine controller system is so expensive, considering it's essentially a SMART outlet and a Raspberry Pi. (Is it just the cost/benefit/convenience curve of them?) I'd like to know if these probes have anything to do with it.

Thanks!

Wesman

 

[GoVols]

Hi, I'm relatively new to reefkeeping. That being said, I'm also a Computer Science student. My plans are to figure out how the water chemistry probes work / function and whether or not these are the only available products on the market for reading water chemistry.

Also, another question I had was if anyone knew why the cost of a marine controller system is so expensive, considering it's essentially a SMART outlet and a Raspberry Pi. (Is it just the cost/benefit/convenience curve of them?) I'd like to know if these probes have anything to do with it.

Thanks!

Wesman

Wesman,

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef ... and I'll tag along with your tread.

Freddie

 

[n2585722]

You can try to build you're own using a Raspberry PI. You can get pH, ORP, temp and salinity circuitry to hook to a device such as a Raspberry PI here https://www.atlas-scientific.com/. It is still not going to be cheap to do it that way.

 

[wesman42]

You can try to build you're own using a Raspberry PI. You can get pH, ORP, temp and salinity circuitry to hook to a device such as a Raspberry PI here https://www.atlas-scientific.com/. It is still not going to be cheap to do it that way.

Thanks for the welcome I 'preciate it.

It looks like someone else has possibly preceded me! Thanks for the information and the link! When I pay off my current tank (75 gal), I'm going to be getting to work on something similar using an article that I found here for an open source model. The software portion will be proprietary given that's my field...but I hope to one day be able to produce an all-in-one type system that doesn't require different modules. What do you guys think? If you can, blow holes in it!!