Observations on the use of ozone - Page 2

mnestroy · #26 09/06/2007, 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by RichConley
I'm really thinking that the Red Sea units are junk.

I run a sanders 50mg unit, on 100g of water, I run it at about 10-20% strength, and it runs roughly 20% of the time, to keep my ORP in the 380 range. I run it through my skimmer (which has some white PVC).

Well I donno how they compare to sanders, but I know first hand the Gen-x Units are Junk! and are falsely advertised. See below thread

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...ght=GENX+OZONE

Lutefisk · #27 09/06/2007, 02:45 PM

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Originally posted by RichConley
I'm really thinking that the Red Sea units are junk.
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I don't have any first hand experience with the Red Sea units but that might be part of the issue.

I bit the bullet and purchased and Sander and it is working well for me.

What method is the Red Sea using to generate ozone? UV keeps coming to mind. If that is the case and the unit has seen some use I think that with UV systems you might have to do some maintenance.

Paul

morty · #28 09/08/2007, 01:41 PM

I'm fairly certain Red Sea is using corona discharge and not UV. I opened mine up in order to add a relay that closes when the unit is active. I could see that the air connections pass thru some sort of chamber that produced a rapid, soft clicking noise when the indicator was on, like there was sparking going on inside it.