Hello,
Newbie Spa owner here. Coast Spa 320 gallons with Spa Frog Bromine inline system (though I'll be switching to a 3-Step Bromine system once I use up all the frog cartridges)
This forum has been chock full of good advice. One of the first things I did was order a Taylor 2106 Bromine FAS-DPD Test Kit. Trying to read the test strips was an exercise in futility.
With the Taylor kit, my last test showed:
Bromine: 9
Alkalinity: 80
pH: 7.7
Calcium: 200
That said, I do want to bounce an observation out there to see if anyone has an explanation. I wanted to compare the Taylor kit results with the Spa Frog test strips. With the Spa Frog test strips, for Bromine, I was getting a zero reading (test square remained white). I tried this a few times with the same results. I know the test strips can be inaccurate or hard to read, but this is quite a discrepancy. Any ideas from the resident experts as to why I'm seeing this. I checked and the strips are not expired. Is it normal for test strips to be this far off?
Newbie Spa owner here. Coast Spa 320 gallons with Spa Frog Bromine inline system (though I'll be switching to a 3-Step Bromine system once I use up all the frog cartridges)
This forum has been chock full of good advice. One of the first things I did was order a Taylor 2106 Bromine FAS-DPD Test Kit. Trying to read the test strips was an exercise in futility.
With the Taylor kit, my last test showed:
Bromine: 9
Alkalinity: 80
pH: 7.7
Calcium: 200
That said, I do want to bounce an observation out there to see if anyone has an explanation. I wanted to compare the Taylor kit results with the Spa Frog test strips. With the Spa Frog test strips, for Bromine, I was getting a zero reading (test square remained white). I tried this a few times with the same results. I know the test strips can be inaccurate or hard to read, but this is quite a discrepancy. Any ideas from the resident experts as to why I'm seeing this. I checked and the strips are not expired. Is it normal for test strips to be this far off?