CH test reads 0?

[PoolDoc]

Can y'all photograph that kit, and post the photograph?

In some parts of the country, the kit Walmart sells *is* a relabeled Taylor, often under the HTH brand. I'm not sure what you've got there, but it's not Taylor. With two kits from different areas, odds are that the kit is 'defective from the factory'.

People need to be warned against it, if this is more than just a coincidence affecting two kits.

Ben

PS: It would be great if we could ID it, get everyone to test their test, and then get everyone with a bad one to take it back. Walmart's inventory control system would almost instantly flag it as a quality control problem, to be 'discussed' with the manufacturer. And trust me, you do NOT want to be having that conversation with Walmart, if you are a manufacturer.

[Tootie]

Ok, I hope this works!!!!

Mine seems to be working,after 2 drops it turns a violet color..

Hope This helps


http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/attachm...9&d=1147002658

[waterbear]

Here are the pics of my kit. Intersting to note that I am in St. Augustine, Fl and cygnusecks is about 2 hours away in Orlando, Fl! Might be a regionally distributed kit. I think the quality control might not be very good. The first one I got had a defective Cl/pH comparator...the color bars had come unattached on the Cl side and had moved out of position and the tube was cracked so I returned it for the one I have now. Also, the Ch test is different than Taylor's. There are only 2 reagents...indicator and titrant, no calcium buffer (reagent #1 in Taylor kit)
aquachem1.jpg

aquachem2.jpg

[Watermom]

When I clicked on Tootie's link posted above, I got an error message.

[Tootie]

I don't know what happend????

But I'll try again

[sisie5]

i bought the same kit last year,however I lost the instruction does anyone knwo where I can get these.I call the 1-800 number and they sent me everything but the instructions.for free....well At least I dont need to buy refills.they will send one every yr.

[cygnusecks]

Tootie & Waterbear, yes, that is the exact same kit I bought in Orlando last week. According to the kit, I have balanced everything but the CH. I think the CH test in that kit is bogus. Do all of your kits tell you to put 2 drops of the "Hardness Solution A" in, and watch for a violet color to develop?

I'm gonna leave my CH alone for the time being until I get my PS234.

[waterbear]

Yes, and it does not work. Like I said before I was playing around with it and found that it worked with about 8-10 drops of the indicator and I cross checked the results with the Taylor kit I have a few times and it is pretty close that way.

[prh129]

I don't have my kit with me so I can't post a photo, but the one I got at Walmart was an HTH (5-way I believe) test kit, not the Aqua Chem shown above. I'm also pretty sure I had to add 5 drops of the blue reagent for hardness. My pool sample did not turn blue but rather a yellow color and after a lot of drops of the second reagent it slowly turned green then sort-of blue. I re-tested on my tap water (which was not used to fill the pool) and it turned blue right away. I received the PS234 kit and that hardness test started with a third reagent - with the PS234 the hardness test worked on the pool water as expected and the hardness was pretty low. It looks like in my case there was something in the water that caused a problem with the 2-reagent test but not with the 3-reagent test (that's probably why the third reagent was added)

The Cl/pH tester in the HTH kit looks the same as the one in the PS234 kit.

Peter