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Original => Hot Tub Forum => Topic started by: drprwnap on November 08, 2005, 10:00:37 am
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Test strips?
Taylor test kit?
pH meter?
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Test Strips
Terminator
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Test strips for TA, total chlorine, free chlorine, hardness;
phenol red indicator for ph...tried 3 brands of strips and still haven't found a ph indication I'm confident in (kind of "bleeds" and I'm never sure what the reading is, so I use the phenol red indicator to be sure). Mind you, I've been having ph issues, so I'm watching it like a hawk ::)
Steve
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Mostly I use the test strips. The ph indicator does bleed and the color never really matches up well.
I see in another thread stl-rex uses a ph meter. I'm hoping he'll chime in and let us know what exactly he uses, the cost and how well it works for him.
I also use the taylor kit every week or two but find it less convenient even though it might be more accurate. Too much thumbing through the booklet trying to figure out, "What do I do now?"
Phil
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Yea, I use a gas fired chromatology field pack unit, .002 micron imaging and laser array.with on board digital print out, and full specturm analsis and self diagnosis.
Ok. Test strips. Works pretty good.
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Yea, I use a gas fired chromatology field pack unit, .002 micron imaging and laser array.with on board digital print out, and full specturm analsis and self diagnosis.
...and you got it on ebay, too. LOL ;)
Phil
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Routine - test strips
Occasionally double check with taylor kit
Steve
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...and you got it on ebay, too. LOL ;)
Phil
NAMCO.
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BioGaurd 1200v test kit--a little more accurate than test strips.
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Taylor test kit. Strips sometimes for free chlorine only. I find test strips for everything else totally unreliable.
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Test strips and our local Bemisters
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Taylor test kit. Strips sometimes for free chlorine only. I find test strips for everything else totally unreliable.
I agree with Tony.
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Test strips
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TEST STRIPS AND MONTHLY DEALER CHECKS
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Taylor test kit. The test strips seem to arbitrary matching the color.
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I use multiple choice, I think it is more fair for the water than fill in the blank.
HTH Test kit, $15 at Walmart
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My water finds multiple choice too hard. So I soften it up with a True/False test and occasionally shock it with a pop quiz ;D
Strips and HTM from WalMart
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Checkit pH Meter. Strips for everything else. I hate picking among the colors on the strips for pH. Everything else is usually a pretty clear cut indication.
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Taylor test kit. Strips for free chlorine only. I find test strips for everything else totally unreliable too!
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test strips here for my quick tests and once a week I use my taylor kit.
For those that use the test stips that also test hardness...what brand are they? And do you find them easy to read? I have separete strips for hardness and they are hard to read. Id like to get the stips that test, Clorine, Alk, PH and hardness all in one.
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My water finds multiple choice too hard. So I soften it up with a True/False test and occasionally shock it with a pop quiz ;D
Strips and HTM from WalMart
I picked up a spa test kit the other day, and wow, I mean
what is this stuff?
Alexander the Great is to Persians as Dichlor is to _______?
I'm going back to the regular old dopey test strips. ???
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Test Strips work well
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Old fashioned way.
Double tube test for clorine and PH.
SemperFi Dick
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Old fashioned way.
Double tube test for clorine and PH.
SemperFi Dick
Unless I'm mistaken, this method gives a total chlorine result rather than free chlorine (as in the kind that can do the killin') Please correct me if I'm wrong!
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Thanks for all the replies. I'm finding the test strips hard to read. Thinking about getting something different but haven't decided yet. Might try a pH meter....
drprwnap 8)
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Unless I'm mistaken, this method gives a total chlorine result rather than free chlorine (as in the kind that can do the killin') Please correct me if I'm wrong!
The older test kits (OTO) would check only TC, however it's my understanding that the newer kits that use DPD, check for Free chlorine.
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Test strips..check once a day usually in the am when hubby and I go out for our first soak at 5:am (btw...this is the most COLDEST darn winter I think I've ever felt around these parts!!!! Who was the one who talked me into skinny dipping????? Who was the IDIOT who said "au Natural" is best????)
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Bioguard 1200V Test Kit, and test Calcium at the store once a month
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Taylor test kit
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Didn't like the test strips so I bought a Cool Pooltester. It's basically a colorimeter and costs about $100. Very accurate.