Pool builders and installers just aren't very good at taking care of pools. The strips are not accurate enough for more than a rough idea of your water chemistry. The drop-based kits use clear color changes and drop counts to determine levels for most water paramaters.
I have read through pool school and I appreciate it greatly. I am a severe pool novice. I was looking at the test kits but I wasn't sure if I needed the same thing for SWGs? Thanks so much.
I was a pool novice last year when I put in a new pool. Thanks to this site I feel very confident in caring for my pool. Read pool school several times and you will soon feel comfortable in taking care of your pool and know exactly what is going on. Good luck and welcome aboard.
The only thing you might want to add for a swg pool in addition to the tf-100 is either the aquacheck salt strips (probably good enough) or the Taylor drop based salt test (K-1766).
I believe it does, but there are times that you may want confirmation if the intellichlor is not working, or indicting a low/high salt reading. Swg salt readings can easily go out of calibration.
Always good to have an independent test for salt. One sign of the SWG getting dirty and/or starting to go bad at the ends of its life is when it starts to read lower salt levels than reality.
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