That’s interesting. The bluelab manual specifically mentions not to soak or store the ph pen in RO, Distillied or De-Ionized water because it causes the water in the reference bulb to change chemistry and kills the probe.
Anyone running that blue lab monitor with high frequency ballasts have any EC reading issues? I run a grow boss and my ballasts boost my EC by 300 when powered, I know running remote ballast isn’t helping but, Annoying..
that's pretty much waht everybody told me when i said i store mine in distilled. lol. i'm not gonna mess with it since it's been fine for many yrs now.
that's a big difference. weird for sure.
Yeah I wasn’t very impressed, it’s a nice monitor otherwise but I have to use my hand held still, I even bought a different ballast thinking a higher end one would shield better, nope.. I routed and moved my lighting electrical, getting close to firing it back up so we will see, I even wrapped the ballast in copper lol, it’s the remote wiring though so it didn’t help.
i'm guessing it's not on the same circuit as the ballast?
No, I run a 220 about 6” away from the sub panel for the hids.
Oh, you want to hear something really messed up, when the old lady goes to bed and sets her phone on the night stand. Another 100ppm up. She thinks I’m trying to kill her with radio waves now
gotcha. i guess building a faraday cage around the monitor would be out of the question. lol.
Haha I considered running the wiring to the hoods threw copper water line, it’s more annoying then anything, will see if getting the lines higher will help, but running Lucas, I’m not checking ppm a lot anyways. This next run on the FNB should go even better, just not sure about the co2, I went in and sealed the room, 2x20lb tanks, rain tubes, growzone controller, wish me luck, going in hot lol!
Interesting that they told you that distilled water would do that. I thought only deionized water would have that effect. Honestly though, a lot of people think deionized and distilled water are interchangeable terms.
Their reasoning as it was explained to me, is that there is an amount of KCl in the probe as a reference. Storing the probe in KCl solution keeps this reference undisturbed but using pure water will "leech" the KCl from the probe.
