I will do it. Yeah the Taylor kit does sound better. I'm a software engineer and work for Apple and wish there were an electronic way to do all this testing. Frequency of testing for the normal owner of a pool is probably directly proportional to how easy it is to do. I sense there is an immense dislike for the litmus strips and I don't doubt they are not as precise but what they loose in exactness they make up for in ease of use. And I'm not making it up I've never gotten a reading from the regent-based kit that was at complete odds with the test slivers I've been using. The fruit of the tree has been pretty good in my case so I've not questioned the readings I'm getting.

Still I will upgrade the kit. It seems prudent and I'm pretty pedantic so it fits.

I'm pulling the floater from the pool today. It's still on the mildly chilly side here in North Carolina (very uncharacteristic for this time of year) so we've not been in the pool much so having the dispensers in there all the time considering I shock once a week is probably not needed.

So hopefully an easy question: The pool is 23,000 gallons and the shock calls for 1 pound per 10,000. I've been rounding down (the stuff is pricy). The readings after a night time shock with the filter running all night is as high as you would expect it to be for super chlorination so I assume rounding down is OK?

Justin )