Justin,
Just some additional information about the Taylor K2006 kit. It does NOT use color matching, so you might like it much better than the one you are currently using. You add a powder to turn a sample of water pink and then add drops of a different reagent, counting drops, until the sample turns clear. That is how your chlorine reading is determined and thus you don't have to do any color matching at all. Plus, with the K2006, you can read chlorine levels up to around 50ppm whereas with most other kits, 5ppm is as high as can be distinguished.

In regards to using the trichlor tabs, if you haven't added any yet, I would wait to do so until you find out what your CYA reading is. If you find that it is already really high (which we commonly see here on the forum), then you would probably do best to use an unstabilized form of chlorine instead of trichlor or dichlor.

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