Hydro Innovations CO2 monitor. $350 retail.

[VagPuncher]

This CO2 monitor looks awesome. Simple, plug in and roll. No calibration needed.

http://www.hydroinnovations.com/product4.php


Hydro Innovations’ CO2 Monitor fits the bill.


The CO2 Monitor is a perfect example of KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). Plug in the monitor, connect your choice of CO2 generators, wait a few seconds for the monitor to boot up, and you’re ready to roll.



I would recommend placing the monitor at the opposite corner from your generator to ensure a minimum application of CO2 to all corners of your grow room.


The monitor defaults to maintaining the environment at 1500 PPM of CO2. It starts your CO2 generator at 1300 PPM and shuts it off at 1500 PPM.



Here we have what’s included in the package.
– 1 A/C adapter for the CO2 Monitor itself
– CO2 Monitor with power cable for your CO2 generator
You can mount the monitor to the wall for easy reading. For myself, I set the CO2 Monitor down in a corner of my grow room, opposite my CO2 generator.


I have the CO2 Monitor connected to the same timer as my grow light. Plants don’t really require much CO2 during lights-out, so any generated with the lights out is a waste.


Fancier CO2 Monitors can fine-tune the PPMs in your grow room. Really, you don’t have to.



KISS is good for you. On at 1300. Off at 1500. Easy.

 

[mikeross]

would like to know as well

 

[Bud Bug]

The guy who created the Corssfire Co2 controller has one of those but hasn't released it. Seems people where not too keen on not being able to see the PPM reading. Really a small display would be nice as you don't know if the reader is reading correctly.

By the way sulfur sprays and sulfur vaporizers kill co2 sensors.

 

[dtfsux]

Isn't worth it IMO. For a little more, you can get a controller that is fully adjustable, has a light sensor, etc.

 

[sparkjumper]

I've done great with my cap PPPM-3 for close to two years now.I've heard stories I guess I'm just lucky.One time out of all of this time the level got stuck very high like 3500PPM but that was one occurence about 6 months ago.I setpoint mine at 1500PPM too when it dropped to 1450 the generator kicks in and kickss back off at setpoint(1500PPM).The level continues to rise normally to about 1650PPM so I'm always between 1450 and 1650PPM for 12 hours straight.I love co2 when you get it

 

[VagPuncher]

BumP!

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

After having wasted plenty of both time and money on Hydro Innovation products, all I can say is caveat emptor. Watch out for those fast talking a/c salesman from Texas. The quality of their workmanship and their warranties are questionable at best.

Yesterday, I was talking to a guy who almost burned down his entire grow from using a hydrogen that was defective.

Like I said......caveat emptor.

 

[VagPuncher]

Thanks dude.

 

[U4EA]

Bye-bye, fuzzy logic. Why increments of +/- 200? Using a cheaper sniffer instead of an infrared gas detector (like Telaire)?

Isn't worth it IMO. For a little more, you can get a controller that is fully adjustable, has a light sensor, etc.

Agreed.

$400 Sentinel CHHC-1 FTW. Or CHHC-4 now, I guess.

Watch out for those fast talking a/c salesman from Texas.

Why am I not surprised at all to see this?

The CO2 Monitor is a perfect example of KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). Plug in the monitor, connect your choice of CO2 generators, wait a few seconds for the monitor to boot up, and you’re ready to roll.

How is that really any different from other CO2 controllers/monitors? Are most users too lazy or too dumb to make the 5-second change to change the factory pre-set of (IIRC, on the CHHC-1) 1000ppm to 1500ppm? If so, would simply having the pre-setting @ 1300 or 1500 put these products in the same KISS class of equipment?

Apparently the goal of this device was to reduce the per-unit manufacturing cost by reducing the number of components (particularly user-input & display devices) and product R&D time, while charging a "competitive" price. Seems the "KISS ideology" was almost a hindsight side-effect and a marketed "benefit", rather than being an original product development goal that will truly be beneficial to the user. (Translation: higher profit margins than competing products.)

I should try to market a Honda Civic to sell to the same audience as Ferrari's, Lamborghini's, etc, citing that it's a better product since it's priced slightly less (only $175k), better fuel economy (87 octane? no problem!), safer due to lower maximum speed, better front collision safety since it's not a mid/rear engine configuration, and has an automatic transmission which means less work for the driver. The concept wouldn't be too different.

I feel like I just read an ad, and that you're somehow getting a kickback or somehow affiliated w/ Hydro Innovations based on the wording in your post. Either that, or you're really, truly excited about these limitations... errr, I mean, "features".

Man, these guys are good at marketing bullshit products for the maximum amount of $$ they think they can extract from you before you realize that you've been had. If I ever start a business, I'd love to hire these guys to market & sell my warez.

 

[VagPuncher]

I feel like I just read an ad, and that you're somehow getting a kickback or somehow affiliated w/ Hydro Innovations based on the wording in your post. .

My original post was an article from Urban Grower magazine, not from me.

 

[U4EA]

My original post was an article from Urban Grower magazine, not from me.

Oops. My apologies. Guess I forgot to add "Either that, or you copy&pasted an ad".

 

[blueburry]

yea i would agree with rocky mountain, be careful of them hydro innovations guys...ive had my chillking breakdown and they will not honor their 90 day (lol) warranty. u can find a top of the line sentinel chhc 1 on ebay for about $450 which will control co2, humidity, ac, etc.

 

[ilovethewest]

im needing to grab a water cooled co2 gen some time soon. should i really not get a hydro innovations gen, or do they work well enough? if not what brand gets the bad ass swiss army seal of approval? ill be using drain to waste. advanced nutrients sells a unit now, thats the only other model i know about. thanks for the tip about sulfur burners, good to know. and ill definitely be getting a good monitor.