After reading many articles on here, I finally ordered my Taylor K-2006C testing kit. I got the larger reagents because I am hoping to do lots of testing. I used the Amazon link that Ben has posted, so hopefully that helped the forum a little bit.

This was my very first test, so I hope I did it right:

FC 2.5ppm
CC 0.5ppm
pH 7.9
Found that I can decrease the pH with 2 drops of reagent
TA 280 ppm
Calcium Hardness: 770 ppm - 800 ppm
CYA: 120 ish ppm
(the black dot went away before the level reached the 100 on my tester)

I read some of the information in the book that comes with the test kit, and plan to read more of it as I have time.

My main question, first, is 7.9 too high of a pH? Previous to this I had been using the test strips.

Thank you for this great forum, and thank you for any clarification you can give me on my results.