AquaChek 7-Way Pool and Spa Test Strips - Silver Pool Test Strips For pH, Total Chlorine, Free Chlorine, Bromine, Alkalinity, Total Hardness, and Cyanuric Acid - Water Quality Testing Kit (100 Strips)

I have used the AquaChek 7-Way silver Pool Test Strips for over 10 years. They are the Best Pool Test Strips around. Very quick to test and accurate for me. I can follow the color code measurements fairly well. I have a 16,000 in-ground Pebble Tec pool. I have used other pool strips that are limited in accuracy and often don’t match up to AquaChek.I also use a Test Kit with reagents which is very accurate. The AquaChek Test strips match with the reagent testing.Once in a while I find a bad test strip. But overall >99% of the 100 strips in the container work and provide good pool chemical testing.I feel confident using AquaChek pool test strip on a regular basis.

Title: Keeps Me Out of Pool-Chemistry JailDip, compare, adjust, repeat. Easy to read and they’ve kept my pool from becoming a science experiment.Instructions are easy to follow. In the beginning I bounced the read out with the poolstores results and they are Accurate enough that I keep buying them. That’s basically the highest compliment a pool owner can give.

These are the best strips I’ve used, and I’ve tried a few of the highest rated strips on Amazon. The strips are easy to read, the colors don’t bleed from one pad to the next like other brands, and the results match up when I use a 6-way test with reagent drops. The strips are nice and long, giving you plenty of space for your fingers too. If I had to have any criticism of these, I wish the PH test allowed for a more precise reading. The scale gives you the upper and lower limits and you have to speculate where you fall in between. I have learned how to interpret these better having compared to the reagent test, but I can see how this would frustrate some. I will still take these over the other strips that are inconsistent and inaccurate.

Easy to use. I am already using the SureTrack strips. Basically the same thing but I wanted to look at possibly a more accurate system that includes Total Chlorine which the SureTrack strips did not. I only gave this test strip 4 instead of 5 stars because the Cyranuric Acid (CYA) and Alkalinity were significantly off.I tested multiple times on the same day. For AquaChek I got the exact same results each test. I compared to results attained by professional tester (Leslie's Pool) from one of the samples. Alkalinity was reading 0 on all the AquaChek test. The professional test showed 80 ppm. SureTrack test showed about 80 ppm as well. I was expecting the AquaChek to be brown (0 indicator) or atleast light green (40 ppm) but it was just mostly white with a little tint of brown. I've tested maybe 12 strips now. All AquaChek CYA reading the same color. Perhaps for my bottle the test material is bad for detecting Alkalinity.The AquaChek was pretty spot on for the other test. I will say for SureTrack and AquaChek the tints are fairly close on PH. At least the SureTrack had a 7.2 , 7.5 and 7.8 reading. The Aquacheck had indicators for 7.2 to 7.8 only. So there is a little more guessing on PH with AquaChek. Since 7.8 is generally the high limit, this should be okay to test for predicting maintenance. Though my goals are to keep PH at 7.2-7.4 for pool comfort. So the SureTrack helps better with this one.Prior visits to Leslie's Pool, they recommended to use a bottle to get test from arm length below pool line. CYA tends to float on top. Your best accuracy supposedly comes from sample an arm length below pool line. I had money to burn so I compared multiple test of samples taken from bottle at arm length below water line and dipping test strips arm length below water line. No difference on AquaChek test. All strips from hand or bottle sample read same for CYA. The indicators were at 0 and 30-60. The color was between those two indicators so I'd guess 15 ppm. The Leslie's professional test was 50 ppm. The SureTrack CYA has indicators for CYA are at 0, 40, 70 and 100 ppm. I'd guess 40 ppm for all of them. Maybe the bottle test samples were a slight shade darker than hand test samples. I only mention this last paragraph in case there were any questions to the sample methods on CYA.For me, both test systems were great. And I will use on a weekly basis or every few days to verify chlorine and PH for sanitary and comfort.. Also to verify hardness which is important on warranty for plaster/aggregate. If you get indication you are consistently outside the ideal ranges, I would definitely recommend getting a professional test to verify problem and professional test again after any treatment. I was told to use the strips probably more often like every day or two for a week after treatment to keep a close eye on treatment long-term effectiveness. I have to do professional test every month for warranty purposes. I'll benchmark accuracy with each professional test so I will have more data in the future. I'll update this post for anything else I find.

Works great and very accurate

These are certainly more expensive than other pool strips, but these are the only ones that I have found that give accurate readings. I have tried three others that never give the proper CYA reading. These do. I used these strips the day I compared their accuracy to taking my water sample to the pool store and having it done with their drop kit. The strips were dead on accurate. In the future, these are the only strips I will buy. I have wasted so much money, putting double stabilizer chlorine tabs into my pool to bring up the CYA reading when I did not have to. So these will actually save me money in the future. You get what you pay for obviously.

Nothing, if the product works, then go with it. Stop second. Guessing yourself. The price of the 7 way test strip is worth it.

Ordered to replace the same brand 4-way test strips in order to have results for both Total and Free Chlorine. Prompt shipping, appears to work well, no negatives.

I have lost confidence in these strips. They were constantly reading very high chlorine levels which dictated how much chlorine I added to the pool but I was having recurring algae problems. I eventually bought a test that uses tablets to get a reading and that test said the chlorine levels were very low, which makes more sense. Hopefully my algae problems are now over.

Have tested a few brands and these are our go-to test strips. Easy to read, colors are real and price is better than at our local pool store.

No es muy precisa

Having wasted my time with swimming pool branded test strips, this are amazing! They are very accurate and even more accurate than the Jed chemical kit I have! Highly recommend!

I read a great many pool test strip reviews before buying these. Those available in Bunnings and similar stores had poor reviews, whilst these were recommended by a pool man as the most reliable home test strips.Perhaps a home test kit with various bottles of reagents would be more accurate, but that would also be very inconvenient.Amazon had the best price for these test strips when checking on line or in store.