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Just as an aside for anyone putting Boric Acid into your pool. I bought 15 pounds of 100% Boric Acid from Tranquility Products through Amazon.com at an average cost of $3 a pound. What arrived was not granular but powder form. To get around the BA floating on the top of the water, I divided...

I just finished doing my tests again. New readings: FC: 5.0 CC: 0 TC: 5.0 TA: 130 pH: 7.3 The TC reading did lower from 170 to 130 after wiping the tip of the R-0009 bottle after each drop. All other values remained the same. So my problem was not following the plastic instructions card...

No. As Donaldson pointed out in his above post, I did not think this was important since I didn't do that with my 2014 TFTest kit chemicals. I will try this method ad see what the results are. It seems that the only abberation is with the TA chems, especially R-0009. I will post my results...

The chemicals wer purchased from TFTestkits. These replace the chemicals in my TF-100 test kit that I purchased last year.

I have a question regarding a jump in TA using 2014 chemicals and 2015 chemicals. I received replacement chemicals for my TF-100 kit yesterday. I ran the the usual tests today: TC,FC,CC,TA,pH with the new chemicals. New chemicals readings: TC: 5.0 FC: 0 CC: 5.0 TA: 170 pH: 7.2 I was...