Taylor pool and spa water chemistry literature english. Taylor technologies chemistry topics the pool class. The langelier saturation index, often called the lsi, the saturation index, or the stability index, is a numerical value indicating whether or not water is balanced. I tested my spa chemistry see my values below and determined that my combined chlorine. If temperature is not known, use 76f for pools or 104f for spas and hot tubs. Taylor complete swimming pooltest kit, fasdpd maintenance.
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This is the vital chemical that inactivates the microorganisms and oxidizes the organics within the body of water. Taylors watergram water balance calculator wheel youtube. Taylor technologies swimming pool and spa water chemistry booklet is a waterproof guide on all aspects of pool and spa water quality maintenance and testing. Sep 05, 2011 in this video i show how to use the taylor complete test kit to test chlorine, ph, total alkalinity, calcium hardness and cyanuric acid. It is affected by some sanitizers and can be altered by the addition of makeup water. Taylor makes the only test kits recommended by the american swimming coaches association. When adding any one of these chlorines to water, they produce the product of hypochlorous acid hocl.
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How to use your test kit 1 measuring chlorine or bromine there are three yellowcap bottles in the taylor test kit. Email to friends share on facebook opens in a new window or tab share on twitter opens in a. The first two are used to measure free active chlorine or bromine. Topnotch chemistry and easytofollow instructions make the 2000. When dpd in either liquid or tablet form is added to a water sample, a pink color forms with an intensity.
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