I have an old Taylor kit and just bought new drops for it a few weeks ago (at the pool supply store). I switched over to bleach instead of pucks this year also. My question is, after dropping 5 drops of reagent in to test chlorine, I get a lower reading than if I waited half a minute to read the results. I dont know if I should go by the immediate reading of 1.2 or the several second waiting period reading of 2.4. If I wait until 1 minute or so the reading could go up to 3.6!

My water is a bit cloudy but I think thats because I havent increased my filtering time yet and its hot here in Texas. And I had algae growing on the walls when I forgot to check chlorine levels for a few days and no chlorine was picked up by the test kit.