See the Australian-made Black Max Ozone Systems
as featured in ‘Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses’ magazine..
Issue 108 Sep/Oct 2009
Intelligent Farm Management
Ghost Gully Produce benefits from using Black Max ozone systems to control waterborne diseases on their farm..
Steven Carruthers, the editor of this highly regarded hydroponics magazine, stated in his article featuring Black Max ozone systems..
“Ghost Gully has shown that ozone disinfection is simple and efficient, with benefits including higher yields and quality and longer shelf-life, and no chemical residues”.
“Where ozone disinfection was once cost-prohibitive for many small and larger growers alike, the Black Max ozone systems
are affordable.”
Water quality testing has proven that a Black Max BM2W ozone generator used in the ozone rinsing system at Ghost Gully Produce, achieved sanitation results exceeding SQF 2000.. The Australian Certification Standard for ‘Safe Quality Food’.
ORGANIC FARMERS TAKE NOTE..
Black Max ozone systems are the perfect water treatment solution for organic farmers! Water sanitation is safely achieved without the need to buy, store and use expensive chemicals! These added chemicals will often leave behind unwanted and potentially harmful chemical residues!
When using a Black Max ozone system, after the injected ozone has destroyed harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi, etc.. it simply breaks down into oxygen and water!
This abundant oxygen super oxygenates the water, or water/nutrient solution, helping to keep the plants healthy, and increasing plant growth.. producing higher yields!
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Healthy Water
Happy Plants
Higher Yields
The highly regarded Australian-made Black Max Ozone Generators were first introduced to the hydroponic farming industry by Gary Davies, the proprietor of Black Max, in 1998 at a time when many farmers were unaware of the benefits of using injected ozone to purify their water.
Ozone is one of the most effective bactericides known to science. The use of ozone in hydroponic farming has become well recognised for its effectiveness in controlling waterborne diseases caused by fungi, pathogenic bacteria, viruses and organochlorines.
These disease causing microbes can greatly reduce plant growth and yields, or even destroy a whole crop in a very short period of time.
Black Max ozone systems purify water by direct injection of ozone into your water tanks, and/or nutrient solution reservoirs.
In the water, excess ozone will break down into oxygen, and super oxygenate the tank water and nutrient solution. This promotes rapid healthy root development, plant growth, and higher yields.
Ozone has been granted GRAS status.. ‘Generally Regarded As Safe’, by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
In a typical Black Max ozone system, the injected ozone has also been proven to work in conjunction with beneficial aerobic bacteria that thrive in an oxygen rich environment.
The powerful ozone output, heavy duty design, and unrivaled build quality of the Australian-made Black Max ozone systems have well proven their worth over the past 28 years. They offer the most reliable, efficient and affordable low maintenance solutions for use in hydroponic farming, and numerous other applications.
Install a Black Max ozone system to sanitise the water in your holding tank, nutrient mixing tank, produce rinsing set up, or any other application requiring purified water.
Black Max Ozone Systems provide proven long life, cost effective, chemical free pure ozone solutions, to help keep your valuable crops healthy and disease free.
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Healthy Water Naturally
Black Max Key Features
Ozone use in Hydroponic Farms & Nurseries
Congratulations go to
Ghost Gully Produce
Ghost Gully Produce is located in Queensland’s Lockyer valley, which is known as the Salad Bowl of Australia.
Prize winners over many years at the Gatton Annual Show, they exclusively use Black Max ozone systems for growing and washing their cos and various other varieties of lettuce.
They also use the Black Max ozone systems to grow tomatoes, coriander, basil, chives and mint on their very large farm.
Farm owner Gary Samuelsen is happy to report no more waterborne disease breakouts since installing the Black Max ozone systems.
Thanks go to Joe Crane from Cyber Hydroponics in Queensland, for his expertise in setting up the Ghost Gully ozonation and automation systems.
Joe has stated that the Black Max ozone systems have enabled Ghost Gully to overcome some waterborne disease issues that they’d previously struggled to deal with over many years.
In fact Ghost Gully no longer has to occasionally dispose of a disease affected crop, then clean out and sterilize the growing channels, before planting a new replacement crop. This has saved the farm a great deal of time, effort and money.
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Hydroponics Farming
magnificent lettuce display.
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The Black Max ozone system is the ideal water purification solution for both hydroponics and nursery applications. Ozone is one of the most powerful fast acting oxidizing agents known. Our ozone systems directly inject ozone into the water which dramatically increases oxygen content, resulting in faster growing, healthier plants. No chemicals are required and no harmful by-products are produced. Ozonated water can also be used for washing produce for increased sanitation, and to extend its shelf life.
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Black Max ozone systems can provide a cost effective way for greenhouse growers to convert from free-drainage (open) operations, to fully recycling (closed) operations, as recommended by the National greenhouse waste-water recycling project. By converting their farm, “greenhouse growers could substantially reduce their cost of production through an average savings of 40% of water, and 60% of fertilizer. A grower could make an annual saving of about $15,000 for every 4,000m2 greenhouse that was converted. Farmers would also reduce the potentially harmful impacts of releasing large volumes of nutrient-rich water into the natural environment”.
What Makes Our Ozone Generators Different
The Australian-made Black Max ozone generators incorporates a high quality/high output industrial ozone producing UV (Ultra Violet) lamp operating at a precise wavelength. The superior quality of the ozone lamp together with an electronic starter greatly increases the life of the lamp. The electronic starter instantly starts the lamp without any of the flickering associated with a basic bimetallic strip starter, which would shorten the lamp life.
The ozone produced by a Black Max ozone generator is exceptionally pure! Both Black Max ozone generator models use a single UV lamp for ozone production. This ensures that they have none of the potential contamination issues that can occur when ozone is produced by a CD (Corona Discharge) ozone generator. This is because a CD unit produces ozone by electrical arcing between two metal grids, so there is always the potential for contamination with nitric acid which can occur as a by-product with the CD method of ozone production.
The Black Max ozone generators are constructed from powder coated marine grade aluminium, and the compact heavy duty design has no moving parts to wear out. Black Max ozone generators have an external window to quickly and safely verify that the ozone lamp is operating. There are four mounting flanges for fast easy fixing to a wall or post.
The advanced design utilises two separate internal chambers.. One for the UV lamp and ozone production, and the other for the electronic control gear and wiring. This separation prevents ozone from damaging the main internal components, leading to longer and more reliable ozone generation.
We pride ourselves on the reliability and exceptionally long life span of our ozone systems. Black Max ozone generators are covered by a full 12 month warranty that includes the ozone lamp, even with timer operation (conditions apply). You can count on many years of productive use from our superior Australian-made ozone generators.
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