Lamotte 2056 Colorq Pro 7 Digital Pool Water Test Kit

I have had this about 6 weeks now and have found it very easy to use. It takes about ten minutes per full test. I then enter the readings into an iPhone app (also available as a web page) which tells me what to do - i.e. add this or that chemical. The app is called Perfectpoolandspa. The kit itself was a bit pricey but I found the test strips I had before much more tricky to use and since each 'pool man' visit was going to cost £70, the kit has soon paid for itself.

perfect

Not cheap, but comprehensive, consistent and seems accurate so far as I can tell. Had no problems with the pool since we started using it (and had plenty before!)

Delivered to. Spain. No problem great product

Very quick deliveryJust a shame that the dates for use on some of the test is only for 5 months at this price I would have expected to have more time before I I needed to replace them

OK but, results are inconsistent.Would also expect that the results would detail what and what volume of chemical should be added to the pool water.Half a solution.

Verdict is still out

This test kit is perfect. Easy to use, and no more guessing on color matches. Accurate digital readouts, and even rave reviews from my Health Inspectors, for choosing such a great kit.So having such great results when first purchased in August 2020. That all went out the window when my water balance failed the Inspector's test. Two of my Chlorine Test reagents had already expired, the third one will expire in September. After paying basically 400 bucks and using it for a month and a half the chlorine reagents are no good. Try to find replacements. LaMotte won't sell to us, a couple of other places would only sell to commercial companies. Did find one place that would have them in about 5 weeks.The other reagents in tablet form were good until 2022 and 2023. And the other reagents aren't exactly cheap from any suppliers I've been able to find. If you buy one of these check the expiry dates on all your reagents first.

This kit is very straight forward to use and covers a wide range of important pool and spa water quality parameters. In tests I've performed with this kit, standalone meters and test strips, I've found good agreement in results. The important distinction between this kit and strips is that there are not "ambiguous" colors to distinguish. The distinction from standalone meters is cost.The kit instructions can seem somewhat intimidating at first, but after you've been through them 2 or 3 times, they are very easy to remember. Reagent addition is always on a consistent quantity of 5 drops. I find I need 5 vials of sample water (4ml each, provided) to run all of the tests. One tube for total chlorine, and also free chlorine; one for alkalinity; one for pH; one for CH hardness; and one for cyanic acid. I generally don't bother with the cynaic acid and can run through the complete suite in a few minutes.The blue photo measurement device provides an easy to read/navigate digital readout. The whole kit comes in a durable, well made plastic coded carry case with nice foam-molded insert to hold everything in-place. Highly recommended turnkey solution for water quality testing.

I wish I would have bought this product along time ago. After buying multiple different test kits I could have just bought this one and saved years of questioning my test kits. This all came about after realizing that my other test kits were so far off from each other, so i decided to go to two other pool stores and have them test my water. Well, between the two stores, those tests also had different outcomes. At this point i started doing my homework and came across this test kit, the LaMotte 2056 ColorQ Pro 7 Digital Pool Water Test Kit. I decided to give it a try. I got tired of color matching and never being sure of where i am at with my parameters and since i do my own maintenance I figured no more wasting money on cheap test kits and depending on pool stores. So I did it. Man, am i happy I did it. The Instructions are straight forward and easy to understand. I read a lot of negatives on the directions, I disagree 100%. They could not have made it any more clear or precise on how and what to do.I'm happy the test kit came with CYA test in it, one store told me it was way too high and the other told me it was way too low. I did the test, it was right in the middle of the spectrum, pretty much right where it needs to be.The box it comes in is not a box you want to discard. Thought was put into how these products sit in the case. Job well done with that.I also read that people complained that the instructions do not have the test result ranges on where the parameters should be. You could go to the LaMotte web site to see what the parameters should be. I figure, at this point you should already know what chlorine, PH, etc. should be at. My opinion.I do strongly recommend this to anyone and everyone who does their own pool maintenance. It is expensive, but makes up for it in the amount of product you do not have to buy or waste by always dumping it into the pool when it does not need it.Hope this helps in making up your mind on purchasing this kit.

This a a great product and makes testing your pool water at home a breeze.That being said, the kit we purchased from this seller arrived with 2 reagents that had already expired, and the remainder of which expired about 3 months later.When I pointed this out to the seller they offered a 15% (about $50 CDN), which doesn’t come close to covering the cost of buying a whole new set of reagents.

After years of testing with strips I finally get accurate and reliable readings from my pool. When I combine my results with the excellent ( and free) online PoolCalculator I can add chemicals with confidence, knowing that I will not overcompensate or waste chemistry. The ColorQ has already saved me money and time and allowed me to achieve crystal clear pool water.I chose this device for my daily testing over the highly recommended Taylor drop and swirl kit for its ease of use and complete freedom from subjective judgement of color patches/color changes. There are no powders to measure and all the tests except cyanuric acid (CYA) require you to simply add 5 drops each of one or two reagents to the sample. After reading the directions once, I never had to refer to them again. The CYA reagent is a tablet that is easily crushed using the supplied tool and the test is the only one which requires a wait time (of two minutes) before taking a reading.My readings have been highly repeatable and adding the the appropriate amount of chemicals according to the PoolCalculator has given almost exactly the expected results.I took one star off because of the limited range (0-10 ppm) of the chlorine tests. This is fine for typical swimming levels of chlorine, but does not allow testing for the much higher concentrations required when shocking the pool. It is possible to stretch this range to 0-20 ppm by diluting the sample with an equal amount of distilled water, but in some cases even that may not be enough and the margin of error at the high end will be greater than +/-3.4. In contrast, the Taylor kit tests up to 50 ppm with purportedly higher accuracy. For this purpose, I will purchase a Taylor FAS/DPD chlorine test kit to supplement the Color Q.I got the following table of margins of error directly from LaMotte. It helps to know these when evaluating your readings and the information is not supplied with the kit or published on the net. Test______________________________low-range_________mid-range___________high-range1 Alkalinity - Liquid, CQ2______`+/- 5, 0 - 50_____ +/- 15, 50 - 150____ +/- 30, 150 - 2502 Bromine - liquid, CQ2_________ +/- 0.2, 0 - 4 ____+/- 0.4, 4-8 ________+/- 0.8, 8-12; +/- 2, 12 - 223 Ca Hardness - liq (7042), CQ2 +/- 15, 0 - 100 ___+/- 30, 100 - 400__ `+/- 80, 400 - 7004 Chlorine - liquid, CQ2_______ +/- 0.1, 6.5 - 8.5 _+/- 0.1, 6.5 - 8.5___+/- 0.1, 6.5 - 8.56 Cyanuric Acid tablet, CQ2 _____+/- 3, 0 - 20 ____`+/- 5, 20 - 80 _____`+/- 10, 80 - 125After using the kit for two weeks, I highly recommend it. We'll see if it stays accurate over the next two months. I'll update if I have any problems.