User manual

Operational Modes

EcoSmart NTM (Nutrient Transport Mode)

In this EcoSmart mode, water is circulated in a two phase program to promote maximum health

and nutrient export, as well as increased growth for sensitive corals such as SPS. In this

mode,your EcoSmart master driver will be purple and your slave driver will flash white/orange/teal

and indicate its speed by the LED strip. The third and fourth LED’s will indicate which EcoSmart

mode you are in. This mode is represented in the image below:

Phase one, or the wave phase, consists of the pumps puls-

ing at an expanding frequency so as to achieve a resonant

wave in any aquarium at some point in the pulse cycle. If

you have already tuned a wave form into your EcoSMART

driver by using the auto-tune function in Short Pulse Mode,

this saved resonant wave will automatically be used during

phase one of the this mode. The pulsing serves to raise de-

bris and detritus from the bottom of the tank and behind the

rock work, where it will then be migrated out from the water

column and into your overflow during phase two.

Phase two, or the nutrient transport phase, begins a flush-

ing cycle to export nutrients and debris in the water column

which can then be captured by your protein skimmer or

other filtration equipment, effectively removing it from the

aquarium and increasing the overall health of your tank.

To maximize the effectiveness of this mode on your aquar-

ium, your pumps should be positioned in the traditional

EcoSMART configurations, with at least two pumps oppo-

site each other on each side of the tank, and one or more

on the back wall. The graph below represents this:

Illustration above shows an EcoSmart Driver in

EcoSmart Mode (Purple Control Dial). The third

and fourth brightly illuminated LEDs show that

this driver is set to EcoSmart NTM along with the

dim LEDs showing the speed setting.

Section 4.1

100%

% of user

set speed

(time)