Appendix
Recipe for carbonate-solution
The machine's dosing algorithms are based on the carbonate-concentration from an
ordinary Balling recipe or similar. Almost all ready to buy solutions and recipes from
other companies, are based on this standard carbonate-concentration. It is of no
importance if the carbonate-mixture is made of HCO
3
, CO
3
or a mix between
these. As long as you use one of these common standard recipes below, or a ready
to buy solution with similar content (almost all commercial liquids are) , Alkatronic
are doing the correct dosing calculations and you only have to set the correct
volume of your system in settings."
"
Here is some of the most common recipes, which all of them works perfect with
Alkatronics dosing algorithms: "
"
•
Recipe based on NaHCO
3
1 liter RO-water "
81 g NaHCO
3"
• Recipe based on NaHCO
3
/Na
2
CO
3
1 liter RO-water "
66 g NaHCO
3"
10 g Na
2
CO
3"
• Recipe based on Na
2
CO
3
1 liter RO-water "
52 g Na
2
CO
3"
"
If your carbonate strength/recipe deviates from recipes above with a factor of
X-times stronger, just divide you aquarium volume by X, and type that value in
settings under Aquarium volume.
Mixing reagent solution
The reagent solution comes in two versions: "
• Ready to use solution "
• Economic concentrated solution"
The ”ready to use solution” does not need any preparation, and can be used from
scratch. (
The economic package is an extremely favorable solution in regards to the running
cost, and is mixed with 4 times more RO/distilled water than the reagent
volume. This 4/1 relation is also correct if you choose to weight the reagent and
water, as the reagent have same specific gravity as the RO-water. (Theoretically the
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