Originally Posted By: Spyder7
According to the VOAs on it, PP has over 3,000 units of calcium in it. Thats lab analysis, not marketing hype. Its why I believe it to be more effective than dinos at breaking up the sludge for the filter to trap. I will contrast it with GTX, as this was my old standby in the past and a regular Walmart rollback, which has just over 2,000 parts calcium.
GTX, on its usual rollback, is $11 for 5 quarts here. PP was $19. Except for PYB and Supertech (which have also been rolled back lately), the PP is $3 to $4 more than the rest of the dinos available at Walmart.
I have enough PP on hand for 2 OCs, plus enough Syntec for a 3rd. Given the relatively low price (PP is regularly $35 here, as are most other syns) it made more sense to use the better product that I have on hand than to buy dino that I dont - especially since it looks like PP will be staying at half price for awhile. For as long as this rollback lasts, it makes no sense at all to buy any dino when its money that could be spent stockpiling PP while the half price rollback continues.
Once the goldmine is over (which will be around the time Ultra arrives I am predicting), I will see how much PP I have stockpiled, and then I may consider buying dino again. But theres no way I am buying dino while PP is half price. From a rational economic standpoint, that is a total waste of money (contrary to what common sense would seem to dictate).
Edit: aside from the above, I consider this a project and I like to try and inject some fun into them. Trying PP for the first time to see how it does is part of the fun. The point of the project isnt to do it as cheaply as possible, nor is it to evaluate the merits of MMO. If an extra $8 bucks fits within the scope of what I am trying to achieve, to me its 8 bucks well spent and I wont lose any sleep on it. I spend more than that on a Bluray disc destined to be watched once and entertain for 90 minutes. The PP will be doing its thing over the course of hundreds of hours of driving.
-Spyder
Sounds like you did your homework, good luck with the clean up.
According to the VOAs on it, PP has over 3,000 units of calcium in it. Thats lab analysis, not marketing hype. Its why I believe it to be more effective than dinos at breaking up the sludge for the filter to trap. I will contrast it with GTX, as this was my old standby in the past and a regular Walmart rollback, which has just over 2,000 parts calcium.
GTX, on its usual rollback, is $11 for 5 quarts here. PP was $19. Except for PYB and Supertech (which have also been rolled back lately), the PP is $3 to $4 more than the rest of the dinos available at Walmart.
I have enough PP on hand for 2 OCs, plus enough Syntec for a 3rd. Given the relatively low price (PP is regularly $35 here, as are most other syns) it made more sense to use the better product that I have on hand than to buy dino that I dont - especially since it looks like PP will be staying at half price for awhile. For as long as this rollback lasts, it makes no sense at all to buy any dino when its money that could be spent stockpiling PP while the half price rollback continues.
Once the goldmine is over (which will be around the time Ultra arrives I am predicting), I will see how much PP I have stockpiled, and then I may consider buying dino again. But theres no way I am buying dino while PP is half price. From a rational economic standpoint, that is a total waste of money (contrary to what common sense would seem to dictate).
Edit: aside from the above, I consider this a project and I like to try and inject some fun into them. Trying PP for the first time to see how it does is part of the fun. The point of the project isnt to do it as cheaply as possible, nor is it to evaluate the merits of MMO. If an extra $8 bucks fits within the scope of what I am trying to achieve, to me its 8 bucks well spent and I wont lose any sleep on it. I spend more than that on a Bluray disc destined to be watched once and entertain for 90 minutes. The PP will be doing its thing over the course of hundreds of hours of driving.
-Spyder
Sounds like you did your homework, good luck with the clean up.
