yeah, understood, but was thinking of those litmus strips. Sorry.
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Don wrote: > I agree with your post. I have been doing this water thing for a few years > now. Looked in to several things. really haven't found any thing worth > while. except a good eye ball.. Don > ----- Original Message ----- > From: M. Terblanche > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Measuring Water Chemistry > > > Hi, not to be a damp cloth here, but this wont work. Water chemistry is > a precise science and require precise measurements. I researched this > for the last two years and haven't find a affordable tool that blind > pool owners can use. The only electronic instruments out there capable > of doing some of the required measurements are damn expensive, and don't > do all that's needed, so my personal advice is to understand your pool, > get the water 100% right, with sighted help, and then do the basics to > keep it well maintained. If the ph, alkalinity, stabilizer levels and > chloreen is right to start off with, you'll learn quickly what to do to > keep it there. If it is not in the right parameters to start with, and > you go about it the wrong way to fix it, you'll spend the whole year > keeping on adding all sorts of chemicals without ever getting it right, > so start off by reading everything you can get on how water chemistry > works, and why certain things need to be done certain ways. > I'll look if I can get good references to post to the list, but first > I'm off to work. > Cheers, > Matthys. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > What we do with the larger windows for intake on those is put it against > > your hand or white paper. Or white, non shiney back drop. > > Maybe not as drastic a diff between red and black for wiring, but if it > > says something that is a darker combination, (my skin with a black wire > > gets me a maroon read out, and with a white wire gets me something really > > light) > > So you can dry and cup the test strip in your hand and see what it says. > > Thus with a > > color #1 known, you get read out A > > with color #2 you get read out B > > not a fine differentiation but at least an > > a or b > > > > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Steve wrote: > > > > > I thought about that, Rob, but my Cobolt one's aperture is too > > large. If the Brightec one is smaller, it might e possible. > > > > > > I'll try to get my hands on one of those and if it works, it would > > certainly be nice. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Rob Monitor > > > To: [email protected] > > <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:18 PM > > > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Measuring Water Chemistry > > > > > > > > > Hi, This just a question since I never owned a spa or a pool. These > > test strips that you use to test the water do they turn different > > colors and if so could you use a color identifier to do the > > testing???----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Don > > > To: [email protected] > > <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:12 PM > > > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Measuring Water Chemistry > > > > > > If there is a really good way to do this as a blind person, I would > > sure like too know the answer. The short answer, get a sited person > > too look at the test strips. regards Don > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Steve > > > To: [email protected] > > <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 1:30 PM > > > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Measuring Water Chemistry > > > > > > Anybody know of a way to independently assess water chemistry in a > > spa or pool? > > > > > > Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often. > > > > > > Steve, K8SP > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! 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