After ditching the Frog my spa came with, I bought the Taylor K-2006 kit a while back and love it! I'm running out of chemicals in that kit, so I researched how to replace the chemicals without buying an entirely new kit... and then found this website/forum! You're the resource I've been looking for over the last year or more trying to manage my spa.
My research - and this forum - led me to purchase the TF-Pro (mainly for the case and the awesome stirring thing, since I was needing to buy the reagents/chemicals anyway). I just got it, and I'm wondering if the reagents, directions, proportions, & measuring devices can be used between the kits; are they compatible/universal with each other? Let me share some examples:
- The reagents are numbered the same as each other in the 2 kits (ie: R-0009 for alkalinity test's sulfuric acid is the same # in each kit). So can I use the TF reagents in my Taylor testing, since I'm out of some of the Taylor reagents (ie: R-0009, R-0871, R-0010)? The bottles & their labels look different (sizes, but also the TF's kit bottles' labels don't say Taylor), which is what caught my attention. Can I substitute the TF's bottle of R-0009 for Taylor's while still using Taylor's R-0007 & R-0008 in my alkalinity testing?
- I've figured out that the pH test isn't the same proportions. I used my Taylor's pH test (R-0004 with the cylinder comparator that came with the Taylor kit), and then just to see how that compared in the TF kit I poured that mixed solution (measuring 7.7 in the cylinlder) into the TF square comparator and it was a much weaker looking red (not able to be read in the square comparator). So the proportions (water to 5 drops) didn't work between the 2. Does that mean I need to keep using my Taylor cylinder comparator until my Taylor R-0004 drops run out?
-- I just looked at the TF kit, and the pH drops have a different number (R-0014), so I guess that sort of answers that question. That liquid needs to be used with that measuring device. Got it.
Are there any other tests where I need to beware of not switching the reagents or measurers between the two kits?
Also, are the directions for the test kits compatible with each other? I've doctored up the color-coded one that came with the Taylor test kit (permanent marker underlining things, and writing cooresponding notes on the lids of the bottles) - can I just move that doctored up color-coded one to my TF-Pro kit and follow those Taylor directions? Once I embraced the color-coding and wrote cheater notes on the bottle lids (ie: "2 drops, swirl", "5 drops, swirl", and "green to red, swirl & count, x10" on my alkalinity set of 3 bottles), testing is SO much less stressful and much easier for me to do quickly.
Thanks for your help in easing me into the TF-Pro kit, after I finally became comfy with the Taylor K-2006 kit.
My research - and this forum - led me to purchase the TF-Pro (mainly for the case and the awesome stirring thing, since I was needing to buy the reagents/chemicals anyway). I just got it, and I'm wondering if the reagents, directions, proportions, & measuring devices can be used between the kits; are they compatible/universal with each other? Let me share some examples:
- The reagents are numbered the same as each other in the 2 kits (ie: R-0009 for alkalinity test's sulfuric acid is the same # in each kit). So can I use the TF reagents in my Taylor testing, since I'm out of some of the Taylor reagents (ie: R-0009, R-0871, R-0010)? The bottles & their labels look different (sizes, but also the TF's kit bottles' labels don't say Taylor), which is what caught my attention. Can I substitute the TF's bottle of R-0009 for Taylor's while still using Taylor's R-0007 & R-0008 in my alkalinity testing?
- I've figured out that the pH test isn't the same proportions. I used my Taylor's pH test (R-0004 with the cylinder comparator that came with the Taylor kit), and then just to see how that compared in the TF kit I poured that mixed solution (measuring 7.7 in the cylinlder) into the TF square comparator and it was a much weaker looking red (not able to be read in the square comparator). So the proportions (water to 5 drops) didn't work between the 2. Does that mean I need to keep using my Taylor cylinder comparator until my Taylor R-0004 drops run out?
-- I just looked at the TF kit, and the pH drops have a different number (R-0014), so I guess that sort of answers that question. That liquid needs to be used with that measuring device. Got it.
Are there any other tests where I need to beware of not switching the reagents or measurers between the two kits?
Also, are the directions for the test kits compatible with each other? I've doctored up the color-coded one that came with the Taylor test kit (permanent marker underlining things, and writing cooresponding notes on the lids of the bottles) - can I just move that doctored up color-coded one to my TF-Pro kit and follow those Taylor directions? Once I embraced the color-coding and wrote cheater notes on the bottle lids (ie: "2 drops, swirl", "5 drops, swirl", and "green to red, swirl & count, x10" on my alkalinity set of 3 bottles), testing is SO much less stressful and much easier for me to do quickly.
Thanks for your help in easing me into the TF-Pro kit, after I finally became comfy with the Taylor K-2006 kit.
