Salt Test Kit

[DONNIE]

Any recomendations for a salt test kit? I have a Taylor K-2006 but need salt. Are any better than others? I wanted to order one of Ben's PS234 with salt but he's stopped taking orders.

Donnie

[chem geek]

Taylor kit K-1766 will test for salt -- it tests for chloride, but reports back as one drop for each 200 ppm salt (NaCl). It's $20.75 which isn't cheap, but you probably won't be testing that often so won't be using up the reagents very quickly. It's mostly expensive due to the silver nitrate reagent (and silver isn't cheap these days).

[DONNIE]

Excellent. Thanks!

[Saltman]

It is best to buy a meter and not a test kit. They last forever and you don't need to buy solutions or tablets. The hanna 1749 is a great product. go to <deleted> to order.

I am assuming you didn't see my note on your other post. You are not allowed to vend here and you must explicitly disclose that you are vender in each and every post. Please read the allowed usage stickies! Carl

[Saltman]

Sorry that is a LaMote 1749. Not Hanna

[nater]

Howdy Saltman,
Please review the Board's policies concerning vendor activity. Your opinions and advice are more than welcome, but please be cautious about openly selling your products on the Forum. We regular Joes find this site incredibly useful and don't want to see it become the typical vendor playground.

Thanks

[waste]

Ted (Saltman), Nater is right in his/ her response. Please read Ben's rules for posting http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=3339, esp the stuff for those of us 'in the buisiness'.
As one Ted to another, and one pool dude to another, I'm trying to save you from being banned after only 7 posts.
I checked all your posts and while not 'too selly' you have tried to get people to buy items from your site. This thread is a great example you said
"It is best to buy a meter and not a test kit. They last forever and you don't need to buy solutions or tablets. The hanna 1749 is a great product. go to [url[/url] to order."
You probably should have said something like: "It's best to buy a meter (hanna 1749 and Lamott XXXX are both very good units) as you won't need to buy reagents" From an 'intellectual honesty' perspective, you should have mentioned the need to recalibrate them periodically. You could have also added, 'if anyone is intersted in getting one of the hanna 1794, and can't find one, you can go to the url in my signature' (however, if the hanna is THE BEST, explain why you think it is vs. the other testers on the market)
Speaking of which, you need to create a sig which defines your connection with the pool industry and I believe it would be kosher to put your url in the sig, as long as you explained what it connected to. (you can see mine at the bottom of this post, short, sweet and to the point that I work for a pool company (and have worked for 3 others in other states) and have done it for a long time, so Ive seen a lot of pools and have a lot of experience, but make no claim to knowing everything. And I'll never give the name of the company I work for here - I'm not here to shill for my boss) For your sig, you might want to take a look at Markfromwatermaid's and Poolsean's, as they are both in the SWCG buisness. Poolsean (no offense to Mark), I have called "the best resourse on line for any SWCG owner" - he DOES promote his brand, but is also willing to, knowledgably, answer questions from folks who have different units without bias. You would be doing well if you achieved his level of respect and faith here.
Sorry to go on so long , also - please realize that I am not Ben nor a moderator, so what I've said is not 'official', but I think I know the forum (I chose this route because Ben seems to be MIA and I think I've said what the moderators would)

[chem geek]

Though a salt meter avoids having to purchase reagents, the fact is that the salt level does not change very much in a pool, especially one that uses an SWCG system. The salt, CH, and CYA levels tend to be quite stable, at least over periods of months over the summer, so you don't really purchase reagents very often for these tests (you mostly puchase reagent for CYA since you use a LOT, 7ml, of reagent for each test). Only significant backwashing and splash-out can lead to some dilution. Adding acid will increase chloride (salt) levels and many SWCG users find that their pH rises so that they frequently are adding acid, but this is a cup of acid only adds a couple of ppm of salt in a typical pool.

Richard

[CarlD]

You can buy an individual salt test kit on line, made by Taylor. That's all it tests.

[Saltman]

Sorry everyone. It won't happen again. It certainly was not intentional. Just trying to answer a question and show where to get the info on the product. I do believe however that knowledge is what the readers want and where they buy it is their descression.