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- Page 1 Care and Use Guide. Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ 6 months for pumps and tubes...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
3.3 Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ 6.5 Material specification connection panel for tubing 3.4 Connecting to a Bluelab ® 6.6 pH adjuster compatibility Pro Controller for tubing 3.5 Connect power adapter 7.0 Accessories, Parts & Guarantee: 4.0 Set up and Operation: Bluelab accessories &... -
Page 3: Introduction & Overview
Dosetronic models ® ® ™ Bluelab PeriPod is compatible with Bluelab Dosetronic s manufactured after 2010. Contact Bluelab Customer Support ® ™ ® ™ ® for more information. 1.2 What’s in the box? Please check and verify the box contents match the below list: 392 mm / 15.4 in... -
Page 4: How The Bluelab ® Peripod
& installation example ® ™ The Bluelab PeriPod is designed to be connected to a Bluelab Pro Controller with inlet tubes ® ™ ® placed into pH adjuster and nutrient stock solutions, and the outlet tubes placed into the reservoir. -
Page 5: Safety Precautions
Bluelab PeriPod follow all precautions in this manual. All the safety instructions and/or ® ™ warnings given throughout this manual relate to the specific features of the Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ 2.1 General safety precautions Follow all generally accepted safety practices and procedures required when working with and around electricity, including the following;... -
Page 6: Installing The Bluelab ® Peripod
3.0 Installing the Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ 3.1 Mounting the Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ Select a suitable location that is: Mounting holes at top • Higher than both the reservoir and the pH and nutrient solutions. This will avoid siphoning from one to the other in the event of peristaltic tube failure. - Page 7 3.2 Setting up the inlet & outlet tubes continued Ensure the inlet dosing tube will reach the bottom of the pH adjuster container. Cut the inlet dosing tube to desired length. adjuster Dosing tube reaches bottom of container Cut tubing on 45° angle Set up the pH outlet dosing tube.
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Page 8: Bluelab ® Peripod
3.3 Bluelab PeriPod connection panel ® ™ The interface panel is located on the right hand side of the Bluelab PeriPod and provides the ® ™ user interface to access its features. LED display screen Yellow connector (To the next PeriPod... -
Page 9: Set Up And Operation
This is done for each pump individually by following the process below. Ensure that all dosing tubes are correctly installed, see Section 3.2, and the Bluelab Pro Controller (if connected) is ® in monitor mode. -
Page 10: Calibrating Nutrient Pumps
The pump calibration is a simple process where equal volumes of solution are pumped through each nutrient pump. The time taken to deliver this volume of solution is measured by the Bluelab ®... - Page 11 4.2 Calibrating nutrient pumps continued Enter pump calibration mode with a long press of the Select / Save button '' Long press '' (long press = ~2 seconds). selection button The LED display will initially show the letter P, then C, A, L, once pump calibration mode has been entered.
- Page 12 PeriPod chain are calibrated whenever calibration is carried out. Once calibrated, the pumps will be turned on and off at intervals by the Bluelab PeriPod ®...
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Page 13: Multi-Part Nutrient Dosing With Bluelab ® Peripods
5.0 Multi-part Nutrient Dosing with Bluelab PeriPods ® The Bluelab PeriPods can be used with the Bluelab® Pro Controller and Bluelab Connect to dose ® ™ ® multi-part nutrients in varying proportions, according to a feed chart or feed schedule. -
Page 14: Starting With Multi-Part Nutrient Dosing
5.2 Starting with multi-part nutrient dosing Setting up the PeriPods and Connect 5.2.1 Setting up the PeriPods IMPORTANT The PeriPod doses small volumes of nutrient into the reservoir so results in less ™ precipitating nutrients, but to further ensure this is minimised: •... -
Page 15: Setting Up Connect
Remember to set or check the EC and pH required values, on/off times and alarms, in Device Settings if loading a file, as these settings are not saved in the setup files. See the Bluelab Pro Controller manual for more information on setting dosing settings... -
Page 16: Calculating The On Time With Multi-Part Nutrients
5.2.3 Calculating the on time with multi-part nutrients From the feed chart or schedule, find the largest (by volume) nutrient component. Example: MaxiVeg requires 18 ml/gal – all the others take less. FRODO'S FEED CHART Required Required Mega Mega Special Week Macro A Macro B... -
Page 17: Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Specifications
EC/pH (refer to Pro Controller Manual). turning. Power not connected. Check power supply is plugged in. If there is a green dot in the bottom right corner of the display the Bluelab PeriPod ® ™ is correctly powered. - Page 18 On time too short/off time Set on/off times correctly (refer to Bluelab Pro Controller ® too long Manual). Never reaching Pumps too small for reservoir. Move to the L3 version of the Bluelab PeriPod if possible ® ™ desired EC/pH. or add more Bluelab...
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Page 19: Technical Specifications
Pump 3: EC B ® Pump flow rate 120 ml/min 1200 ml/min PeriPod size selection Refer to bluelab.com for discussion on pump sizing Peristaltic tube lifetime >750hrs pump running time Peristaltic pump motor lifetime >1500hrs pump running time Solution Temperature 5 - 50°C / 41 - 122°F... -
Page 20: Accessories, Parts & Guarantee
Optimum growth needs optimum pH. And we make optimum simple. If your pH isn’t in the right range – and that’s 5.5-6.5 for most plant varieties – your nutrients are likely wasted. We say that’s a problem you don’t need. At Bluelab , we want our ®... -
Page 21: Bluelab ® Limited Warranty
This warranty is governed by the laws of the state of country where Product is purchased, without regard to its choice of law principles. Except as allowed by law, Bluelab does not limit or exclude other rights a consumer may have with regard to the Product. -
Page 22: Contact Details
Netherlands Phone: +31 (0) 85 05 16 848 Email: support@bluelab.com Online: facebook.com/getbluelab Manuals: bluelab.com location. Bluelab Corporation Limited ® 8 Whiore Avenue, Tauriko Business Estate Tauranga 3110, New Zealand Instruction Manual English PERIPOD_620373_V02_28032018 © Copyright 2018, all rights reserved, Bluelab Corporation Limited ®...
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