The webmaster is me, so I just saw that. Glad you recovered it.

OTO kits are usually available locally, and are better than strips. Taylor K2006 kits are usually NOT available locally, so when people have pool that's already running, we usually tell them to get an OTO kit (now) and a K2006 ASAP. It's not waste, since you'll be able to use the OTO kit for daily testing most of the time . . . but you'll need the K2006 to set things up, to check periodically, and to resolve problems.

The K2006 includes a better pH test, plus CYA, plus a high range high accuracy chlorine test, plus calcium and alkalinity tests.

But, NONE of the tests will tell you what to put in: they just tell you what's there. You have to LEARN what to put in, and what size doses to use, but we can help with that, once we have the test results.