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Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2025
Pure garbage. Compared the strips against my city water and a puddle of water outside. Gave the exact same reading, 5 times. Save your money. You cannot trust this item.
Colorful Harvest
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2025
Worked
Sarah Couture
Reviewed in Canada on April 29, 2025
C’est pratique
Donald Bealer
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
Waste of money. The Strips didn't match the conversion chart. Had no idea what the tests were.
Alan K.
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024
Liked. Easy to use.
Ricardo
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
Impossible to read the results when the colors from the strips do not match the ones on the table
TheEngineer
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2023
These 17-in-1 test strips provide a lot more information than the typical “Chlorine + pH” swimming pool test strip. That can be good or bad, depending on your goals. The label on the bottle provides all the information needed to equate the color of each test pad with the equivalent measurement value. The box also includes a well-written pamphlet describing each test and it purpose. These additional tests (metals, nitrates, chloramines, etc) are useful if you are assessing the quality of drinking water, but it is probably overkill for daily monitoring of a residential pool or hot tub.Reading/recording all 17 measurements can be challenging. The bottle label is 4.25” tall while the test area on the strip itself is 4.75” long – This means that the measurement “pads” don’t line up exactly with the label, making it difficult to compare a given measurement pad to correct reference on the label. It would have been nice if the manufacturer had made them the same length so they’d align evenly, thereby avoiding this aggravation. I found that aligning the dark purple Fluoride pad on the strip with the dark purple fluoride scale on the label helped me to reduce misreading errors. The instructions state that you should wait longer for the Nitrite/Nitrate measurements than the others, which is an additional complication. I found it was easiest to use these 17-in-1 strips if I made a list on a notepad of all the tests in order first, and then I could quickly write down the measurements as soon as I read them.I have some basic pool-water test strips on-hand, so I performed a side-by-side comparison test (see photos). The pH and Alkalinity matched between the two strips which is encouraging. However, something odd happened with the “Free Chlorine” test – in the first 30 seconds, the color of the chlorine test pads matched on both strips (i.e., they provided the same measurement), but after about 2 minutes the color had all but vanished from the 17-in-1 strip (No color = 0 ppm chlorine) while the comparison strip was unchanged. This underscores that you need to assess the chlorine result pretty quickly after dunking the strips in the water. Bottom line: given the complexity of using these strips, they would not be my first choice for routine pool/hot tub monitoring. They require more effort to use and are roughly 3x the price of “basic” pool test strips. If you want to check your well water or verify if a drinking water filter is working correctly, however, having all these extra test measurements is useful and could justify the higher cost/complexity of use.
PS
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2023
These test strips can be used to test the amount of contaminates in your tap, well or drinking water. Can also be used for pool, hot tub or aquarium water. Uses are for water, not dirt. The strip doesn't contain a patch to test for bromine (Br) as advertised on the bottle but does check for 16 other contaminates. It appears to be pretty accurate since I have tap water that's been filtered through an a under sink filter and a fridge filter. I just changed the fridge filter before testing the results and they are as expected. It's nice that there's a lot of strips. Just be sure to only touch them with dry fingers and store them in a dark dry place, not the fridge, and they should last for some time.
Skeetre
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023
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Bear
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023
These little strips are helpful to get some idea about the state your drinking water is in.Great for monitoring your well water and doing extensive testing if these strips suggest you might have a problem.Nice big value pack.
Dr_S_Matthews
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2023
I got these to test my well water. I was interested to find out if it had any obvious contamination and whether it would be drinkable in an emegency.These strips are fairly easy to use, they are a bit difficult to remove from the container without handling the last test area or getting more than one to come out, but a 2 second dunk is all they need and then you compare the colour.I realised when I was using them that the problem here is that these stips would indicate if there was something wrong with the water that you shuold not drink it, but it doesnt give you the logical opposite. There are many things these are NOT testing for with drinking in mind, such as bacteria, so they can never give you the all clear to tell you that you can drink it. subtle point worth thinking more about if you want to drink the water. My well water was indistinguishable to my city water but im still not ready to drink it.
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