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Your cart is empty.The Taylor K-1766, Water Testing Kit includes everything you need to keep your saltwater pool or spa beautiful and safe for swimmers. This water test kit quickly and accurately measures Salt (Sodium Chloride) levels. Not all water testing products are made the same! Taylor has been a leading supplier of water testing products and analysis since 1930, providing residential and commercial pool and spa owners with high-quality test kits, reagents, test strips, and water testing supplies. Proudly built in the USA, Taylor pool and spa water testing products can be used for in-ground pools, above ground pools, hot tubs, and spas. Take control of your pool and spa chemistry and see crystal clear water all season long with Taylor!
JVamazon
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
I was one of the fools that bought the salt strips.... absolutely worthless, did not remotely work. A frustrating waste of time and money. This kit costs more (a lot more), but well worth it.This kit really works well. If you double the starting solution in the vial, then each drop represents 100 ppm instead of 200ppm. I used this as I added salt, and it tracked.Now I know very well what the salt concentration is for my saltwater chlorinator.
Cheryl Phelps
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
The weird thing about this is that it tests for Cl, not Na, but then it is measured as ppm NaCl (Aka mg/L NaCl). It isn’t a way to measure the sodium in the water, nor do you need to. NaCl is 60% Cl by mass. So you can look up the maximum chloride ion concentration before the water begins corroding the specific surfaces you are dealing with. Look it up on forums for what people have experienced. Then calculate the actual chloride by taking 60% of your reading and compare to those numbers.What the NaCl reading is good for is LSI calculators. You can use the straight NaCl reading on the Orenda calculator.
Cr8yourOwnFuture
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2024
I’m still amazed at how much I found pool tests confusing until I bought a Taylor kit. They are perfectly packaged with a place for each item, the instructions are laminated so when they get wet you can just wipe it off and the test result is clear as day. No regrets! Buy one for yourself.
T. Roberts
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2024
Easy to use
Michael S.
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024
Best and most accurate test in the world. Taylor invented the current water testing universe. There is nothing better. Remember that reagents need to be replaced yearly.
David Hepler
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2024
I use the bigger "complete" kit already. I switched to SWG this season so I needed a salt test. This works great and eliminates guessing with stupid strips.A bit of advice. When adding drops, it helps to swirl the beaker with one hand and drip with the other. So that the test is always swirling as the drops add. This way you get a very solid flash to reddish. I was adding then swirling and it wasn't as obvious. The test kinda coagulates like milk and lemon juice so if you don't constantly mix I feel like it's perhaps not as accurate and obvious when the color flashes.It's still a top notch test.
Pignutr
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
I found out thru using this test that my SWG was out of whack. This test is not subject to temperature or other variances that you get with electrical conductivity or salt test strips, it just works. The only thing I found difficult to use is the amount of precipitate that forms with no explanation that it is supposed to happen. Also, the tube gets some residue on the sides that seems unusual, but most likely is just normal. Overall, Taylor gets like a 1 for the explanations. Finally, the dropper is maybe a 2 out of 5, each drop is 200 ppm chg with a 10 ml sample, I'm not exactly sure why they supply a 25 ml bottle... In spite of the challenges of understanding what is expected outcomes for precipate/residue, and a poorly designed dropper bottle, this kit gives me confidence that I am getting very close to the actual salt content (within 200-400 ppm), which you won't get out of another system. What I have also discovered is that my SWG once exposed to sunlight gives me a more accurate reading, albeit still like 1000 ppm to low compared to this Taylor kit, but that's ok, fits in the middle of the range for my pool system.
Paul Chadwick (Bonnaroo)
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019
I converted my 24' above ground pool to a "salt water" pool. The recommended amount of pool salt to get 3000 ppm was 350 lb. I purchased 9 40-lb bags and put 8 bags (320 lbs) in the pool. I looked for the best way to test salinity, and saw many recommendations for the Taylor test kits. I purchased the Taylor K-2006 "Complete" test kit, but it didn't include the salt test. Then I purchased the K-1766 kit, which consistently gave 3600 ppm results. I took a water sample to my pool store, and they read 2800 ppm and told me to add 45 lbs of salt. So I added another 40 lb bag and retested after 24 hours. The K-1766 now gave me a result of 8800 ppm! I tried it again, and after adding 50 drops of reagent, the color never changed! So this kit is worthless. I attempted to return it, but that's not allowed. So buyer beware! I will say that the other tests in the K-2006 kit seem to work pretty well; it's just this "salt" test kit that's worthless.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2019
Taylor's is the only product I will use for my pool at home and work
Frederic Badin
Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2018
Works as intended, no issues
James Nitz
Reviewed in Canada on June 1, 2016
Great product - super easy to use. Highly recommended for your salt water pool checks
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