LaMotte Waterproof Bluetooth ColorQ 2X PRO 7 2086

Perfect for me, as I’m colorblind red/green and have a terrible time with test strips. This unit tests very quickly once you get the hang of it. Bluetooth feature allows you to compare results over time, fine tune your pool chemistry, and get a “feel” for what your pool needs. Does not test salinity but there’s a very inexpensive digital tester for that as well.Couldn’t be more pleased with this unit and it’s worth every penny IMO. I’ve compared a couple of test results with the local pool store’s digital test and found the ColorQ to be very accurate. Reagent refills are also easy to find.

I have dumped my pool guy who was a nice guy but did a piss poor job of monitoring my weekly pool chemistry. Simple and easy to read/understand instructions and the reagent/tabs appear to be regularly in stock on Amazon and w Prime shipping, so if I need to reorder down the road, there are no supply chain issues! When I have added chemicals based on initial readings, the updated readings are consistent with the chemicals I have added to bring things back into their proper range, so I feel it is quite accurate. I ordered from seller "Dealsupply" and they were superb! Nobody takes care of your stuff like YOU do. Good bye pool guy!!

We’ve been pool owners over forty years and have used a variety of manual and automated test kits. We have a 25,000 gallon in ground pool. We had been using Leslie’s accublue automated system, but it locks customers into an ecosystem of expensive chemicals. The ColorQ system seemed like a good alternative without subscription fees. We also bought a strip based system to try that uses a cell phone app to interpret the colors.Compared to the other systems, ColorQ is many times the cost with no features to justify it. Free chlorine, total chlorine, alkalinity, and ph agree with the other systems, so why pay the premium for this one? Cyanuric acid test requires a two minute settling time during which the reader times out. Rather than having a recall memory, waking the unit requires restarting all the tests. Best to prep all the vials at the same time and let the two minutes elapse before beginning the test sequence. Even so, the CYA readings are nonsense (e.g. a CYA reading of 0 when using stabilized chlorine tabs while other systems show 150).The digital readout makes results appear precise, but the actual results are no more accurate than the other systems. Worse, the strip test system we tried uses a camera app to interpret the colors (using a provided known neutral gray background for reference and delivers equally precise appearing number results. That takes about 2 minutes total.The ColorQ system requires collecting a water sample in a bottle, adding a precise amount of the water to each vial, adding the preside number of drops or tablet chemicals to each vial, crushing the tablets, inverting vials, to mix, waiting 2 minutes for the CYA vial to settle, calibrating the reader with clear sample water, then inserting each vial in turn, skipping two tests for which neither chemicals nor instructions are provided, then clean up. It takes about 20minutes. Not fun unless you enjoyed high school chem lab with capillary pipettes. Oh, and make sure you use the right vial for each test, as they re not identical.For the price, you could expect at least a quality feel to the kit. The reader is cheap plastic with a cheap feeling actuator button (unlabeled) and the test vials are plastic as well. The kit does come with a generous supply of test chemicals, though.Should you be unhappy with the test kit, it is not returnable, even if the shipping box is never opened. Complete waste of money.

I've had this unit for about a month now and I don't know what I'd do without it. This unit allows me to quickly test for all the necessary pool chemistry and it's very easy to use. My only complaint is the unit sometimes times out too quickly on me during the Cyanuric acid test. I have compared this against test strips and the Taylor K2005 kit and (despite the strips obviously having larger ranges) all 3 seem to agree except this product is much easier to use and get a reading. Just today I had a reading of ~150 ppm for TA (I know, it's high) and performed the Taylor test, Sure enough, at the 15th-16th drops the test turned red. Also accurate when compared to readings from a local pool company using Bioguard...dare I say it even caught a potential error on that testing just today. It might depend on how well your unit was calibrated from the factory but mine seems to be working very well.

Overall this unit does a great job. It feels good to have nice digital numbers to reference. A couple complaints. 1. It does not give an accurate CYA number. I probably should have returned it for that reason. The number is always low when compared to the test at the pool shop. This is bad because you don’t want to pot too much stabilizer in the pool. I kept it because you only need to check CYA once maybe twice a season. I can go to the pool shop for that. Although I shouldn’t have to. 2nd. Clicking through the different tests is a pain when you get to bromine. I don’t do a bromine test. So when I try to skip it, it sometimes skips over PH, which I do need. Not a deal breaker. But requires a bit of careful button pushing. Lastly. I use this with my iPhone. Sometimes the phone will fall asleep during the process. And that makes you start all measurements over again. The way around this is to change your phone/screen setting to Never sleep. Just don’t forget to change it back or your battery will be toast quickly.So overall it’s good. I didn’t realize the CYA reading was not working correctly till long after my return window. So if a rep happens to see this, would love some advice on what to do about getting a good reading.

I got tired of guessing which color matched the closest with strips and traditional drop tests. Not to mention my husband is color blind so I was the only one who could use the other tests. This is so easy to use and works quickly. I like that it records my results via Bluetooth into the app as well. It seems to be accurate when comparing results against other testing methods. Definitely a good purchase.