Help with bru water setup

[Kingy]

So my goal this year is to tackle the water instead of putting it in the to hard basket.
Ive set up the water report but the program is telling me it's unbalanced so I must have done something wrong. Can someone Check my inputs?

 

[nosco]

Some of your numbers seem very high to me but I have Melbourne water.

 

[nosco]

My profile for Werribee water

 

[mtb]

How are you calculating Bicarbonates? They seem a bit high

 

[nosco]

 

[Kingy]

I read that to get the bicarbonate value to multiply carbonate by 1.22

 

[mtb]

Nah use the Alkalinity Conversion Calculator on the same worksheet. Enter Total Alkalinity and pH, it'll estimate your bicarbonate for you.

(edit) looking again at your screenshot, I think you might be using an old version of Bru'n Water so you may not have the Calculator. Go get the latest version to be sure.

 

[mtb]

You can get Temporary Hardness as CaC03 from here, that sheet lets you figure out where in Newcastle your water is coming from. Then using the table in the bottom right you can find your temporary hardness, which you can input into the Conversion Calculator.

 

[rude]

Post you're water report so we can see

I'm no gun & dont use the water report input as I use R/O water but will have a look

I'm sure there are heaps of crew on here who will help

 

[Coalminer]

MHB posted Hunter water report recently in another thread. Can't link to it at the moment on tablet. Will do tomorrow

 

[wobbly]

(edit) looking again at your screenshot, I think you might be using an old version of Bru'n Water so you may not have the Calculator. Go get the latest version to be sure.

Nah That is a screen shot from the latest version 4.2. I got mine emailed to me from Martin last Tuesday 10th Jan

Wobbly

 

[SBOB]

I can send you one with a newcastle water profile already setup if you want
I have numbers that MHB posted age ago

But this what I have entered into my spreadsheet

 

[huez]

I think you have used the wrong value for your carbonate level, actually i'm certain you have. The value SBOB posted is probably going to get you close enough.

 

[nosco]

Thanks Kingy for the reminder. Im just filling out v4.2 now and it says that carbonate does not exist in water with a Ph below 8 and can be assumed to be zero in water Ph below 9. Its obviously rounding there but I think as huez says your carbonate value is way to high. It tells you if you click on each cell how to work out the bicarbonate and carbonate values in ppm for use in the spreadsheet.

 

[fungrel]

I can send you one with a newcastle water profile already setup if you want
I have numbers that MHB posted age ago

But this what I have entered into my spreadsheet

27ppm sodium? Is it always that high?

 

[Coalminer]

SBOB
I see you are using the 90th percentile figures for Grahamstown water
I thought from MHB's talk we should be using the median figures, but I may be wrong about this

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/93153-hunter-water/#entry1417961

 

[Kingy]

Thanks guys gives me something better to work with. I'll have a play around with that when I get home. Dunno where I got my figures from in original post lol.

 

[SBOB]

SBOB
I see you are using the 90th percentile figures for Grahamstown water
I thought from MHB's talk we should be using the median figures, but I may be wrong about this

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/93153-hunter-water/#entry1417961

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I could be wrong, as I didnt attend that talk and grabbed info that was posted a year or 2 ago

Might update mine to align with yours then

How much is the fancier BrunWater version cost? Im still running the freebie one

 

[Coalminer]

I could be wrong, as I didnt attend that talk and grabbed info that was posted a year or 2 ago

Might update mine to align with yours then

How much is the fancier BrunWater version cost? Im still running the freebie one

Cost is want you want to pay. Either once only or regular subscription. The paid version is much more comprehensive AFAIK but I never used the old version. Differences all explained on his site

https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/screenshots

e.g. Can save individual grain bills without saving a full copy of the spreadsheet for each recipe
I just paid $15.00 USD to see whats involved. If I can handle the software will probably make regular donations as there appears to have been a lot of work put into it
Still only half way through the instructions page at the moment so lots still to learn. I have only ever used Calcium Lactate as my water treatment but flying blind,
so don't take my word as gospel
Still need to get a decent PH meter

 

[Kingy]

I made a donation of $10 and got the upgrade version emailed to me a few days ago.