Salt tests - Inaccurate! Meter & Strips!!!!!
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Calibration isn't the problem really, the problem is figuring out the difference between the cell being scaled, the cell being old, and the salt level being actually low. If the cell is scaled or worn out, and you calibrate the salt reading what have you gained? The SWG still won't work and you haven't really gotten any closer to knowing why.
If it's not scaled or worn out, but reading levels incorrectly, I would like to be able to correct it.
Most SWGs (not all) display the conductivity of the water as measured through the cell (in units of equivalent salt level), which is exactly the number the SWG actually cares about, the number that determines if the unit will work or not. "Calibrating" that number to an external measurement makes no sense, as external measurements have nothing to do with how the SWG is going to perform. If the conductivity is too low (or high), the SWG will not work, regardless of what the actual salt level is.
Some SWGs measure salt separately from the cell, and for those units the calibration of the salt sensor is interesting.
Some SWGs measure salt separately from the cell, and for those units the calibration of the salt sensor is interesting.
I wish I had a way to tell the conductivity sensor that its readings are wrong and a way to tell the sensor how much higher or lower the conductivity really is compared to what it currently thinks it is.
Conductivity is conductivity. Resistance is very simple to measure. I believe you are missing the point in that what it displays is far less important than what it thinks.