My Alkatronic is not giving me same values as my manual test (Like Salifert, Hanna etc). Why?
It’s always a matter of calibration and its highly likely you haven’t calibrated the Alkatronic machine correctly or the reagent hasn’t been mixed correctly.
Just follow the instructions in the latest user manual that you will find at www.focustronic.net, and redo the calibration. We recommend that after “Calibrating” the pumps and probe you perform a “Test Pump Accuracy” test too. Alkatronic should be providing you with 10.0 ml for the pump C and 50.0 ml for pump A.
Also remember that each line in the small calibration cylinder (for pump C) corresponds to 0.5 ml! For pump A you use the large cylinder and every line corresponds to 1 ml.
Bear in mind that a manual test such as Salifert has an inaccuracy of 0.3 dKH, so DON´T look for nAlkatronic to mirror the test result values!
If there continues to be a variance of greater than 0.3 DKH then fine tune with the Baseline Calibration (SeeUser Manual)