Neptune Trident NP and new DOS!

[phatduckk]

all depends on what that little bottle is for and where it goes and if the manifold looks the same.

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I think I heard in one of the Q&A videos that it’s something you mix with one of the other reagents as part of the “replace reagent task”. Could be wrong but that’s what I recall.

 

[Coral reefer]

Aquatic collection had in stock the other day

 

[phatduckk]

Aquatic collection had in stock the other day

I got one yesterday but haven’t set it up yet. Gonna have to figure out where to put it as my cabinet’s out of space (at least with the current way I organized things)

 

[Srt4eric]

all depends on what that little bottle is for and where it goes and if the manifold looks the same.

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Charge your phone...

 

[phatduckk]

all depends on what that little bottle is for and where it goes and if the manifold looks the same.

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OK so it's just like the regular trident in so much as it seats 3 reagents in the drawer.

The reagent package comes with 2 extra bottles:

1. the mini bottle... this is reagent 3b. You need to add the contents of 3b to reagent 3a (normal reagent bottle)
2. a forth "normal" sized bottle with powder in it. You mix tap water with this powder then dump the contents into the waste container... its called "waste neutralizer" or something like that (threw it away and cant look)

But I the end - you end up with 3 reagents in the drawer just like the normal trident

 

[phatduckk]

So far so good LOL
As the image shows, I'm currently calibrating the NP & hopefully that gets things, more or less, in line (ran about 5 tests over the last 2 days)
If not I'll go buy some Salifert kits to further troubleshoot... but, hopefully all I have to do is calibrate

 

[Thales]

The NSI still has me testing by hand, I am willing to stop because I am convinced.

 

[phatduckk]

The NSI still has me testing by hand, I am willing to stop because I am convinced.

Hopefully I sort mine out. It initially had the po4 “correct” but then magically decided to set it at 0 lol

Still calibrating. Hoping it’s all set later today. In the mean time I’ll play video games

 

[phatduckk]

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So far so good LOL
As the image shows, I'm currently calibrating the NP & hopefully that gets things, more or less, in line (ran about 5 tests over the last 2 days)
If not I'll go buy some Salifert kits to further troubleshoot... but, hopefully all I have to do is calibrate

Post calibration…

 

[JVU]

Post calibration…

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Sorry but just to be clear, you are saying the readings are way off still after trying to get it to work for 2 days, including doing (or redoing?) their recommended calibration?

 

[JVU]

The NSI still has me testing by hand, I am willing to stop because I am convinced.

Convinced that it is reading accurately/reliably or of something else?

 

[phatduckk]

Sorry but just to be clear, you are saying the readings are way off still after trying to get it to work for 2 days, including doing (or redoing?) their recommended calibration?

Way off compared to my Hanna checkers, yes.

Gonna buy some manual kits later today for a tie breaker.

 

[Thales]

Convinced that it is reading accurately/reliably or of something else?

Concinced that the trends are good and solid and in the ball park enough for me.

 

[Thales]

I hate hanna checkers, and am using them becuase that is what the NSI wanted.

I bought my checkers a year or two ago so I could have the same white cane most people in the hobby seem to use, but I hate all nitrate testing* (it is a goofy test the way it works and is really dependent on the vigorous shaking being the same every time) so I am happy to have a machine do it.
*I hate all testing and am happy to have a machine do it.

 

[phatduckk]

Post calibration…

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ok bought salifert kits and ... drumroll. Salifert agrees with Trident NP.
So TLDR - seems like my Hanna checkers are busted and the Trident is fine

 

[JVU]

ok bought salifert kits and ... drumroll. Salifert agrees with Trident NP.
So TLDR - seems like my Hanna checkers are busted and the Trident is fine

Interesting

 

[Scoty]

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So far so good LOL
As the image shows, I'm currently calibrating the NP & hopefully that gets things, more or less, in line (ran about 5 tests over the last 2 days)
If not I'll go buy some Salifert kits to further troubleshoot... but, hopefully all I have to do is calibrate

Hi im new to this group, did you ever get your trident np reading right? I got mine 2 days ago and my readings are far off to!

 

[L/B Block]

ok bought salifert kits and ... drumroll. Salifert agrees with Trident NP.
So TLDR - seems like my Hanna checkers are busted and the Trident is fine

Update-you liking it so far?

 

[phatduckk]

Update-you liking it so far?

Nope lol working with Neptune support now; submitted a bunch of debug logs etc yesterday and waiting for their engineers to diagnose what might be happening.

Since the last update:

• I've done 3 or 4 water changes to bring nitrates down. Salifert is reading about 20 now where the Trident is reading 50-70 (depends on the day).
• many hours after a 50% WC nitrates went from 60 to about 78 (Salifert said they went down)
• Due to frustration on my part I did a "reset" on the NP and since then Po4 has been reading 0 (Salifert disagrees and says im between 0.03 and .1 somewhere - cant tell from color)

 

[L/B Block]

Nope lol working with Neptune support now; submitted a bunch of debug logs etc yesterday and waiting for their engineers to diagnose what might be happening.

Since the last update:

• I've done 3 or 4 water changes to bring nitrates down. Salifert is reading about 20 now where the Trident is reading 50-70 (depends on the day).
• many hours after a 50% WC nitrates went from 60 to about 78 (Salifert said they went down)
• Due to frustration on my part I did a "reset" on the NP and since then Po4 has been reading 0 (Salifert disagrees and says im between 0.03 and .1 somewhere - cant tell from color)

Ooof. Hope the bugs get worked out. Soon