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Welcome, pool guys, and gals to the Let's Talk About Pools podcast, where your host, Lauren Broom, will take a splash into many topics in the pool industry to educate all aquatic professionals.
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Listen in, and you just might be surprised what to learn.
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So let's jump right in.
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Welcome everybody today to the Let's Talk About Pools podcast.
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And on today's episode 84, I talked to Tyler Di Pretoro with ITS, and we talked about easy and accurate pool water testing with the pool easy photometer made by ITS, Industrial Test Systems.
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So I hope that you sit in and listen to this episode because I've never had a test kit manufacturer on before, and Photometer is one of the more accurate methods of testing.
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I want to say thank you to our strategic podcast sponsor as always, Pool Brain, for supporting pool podcast education, which is free to our industry for our listeners.
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So let's jump right in.
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But before we do that, let's listen into what Pool Brain can offer our pool pros.
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Because we can do it all.
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I absolutely love Pool Brain.
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There's not a better app on the market.
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We've tested a ton of different ones and we landed on Pool Brain for a reason.
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We have well over 6,000 pools on FoolBrain.
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We've been on a few other platforms in the past, and this one's been by far the best one we've been on.
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Just very intuitive and easy to use for full professionals and very obviously made for full professionals, and I really love it.
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I love we love full brain, baby.
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When you have a focus for our industry, for the service professional, I believe that everybody wants.
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And on my episode today, I get to interview Tyler Deep Pretoro.
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He's product manager with Industrial Test Systems.
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Welcome today to the podcast, uh, Tyler.
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How are you?
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I'm well.
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Thank you for having me.
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Yes, excited to have you guys on.
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I think you're the first uh company I've had on about like the actual photometer we would use for testing water.
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I've had water chemistry, I've had all kinds of stuff.
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I've had ORP on here, but I've never had where we talk to a manufacturer that makes an L1 certified photometer that is pretty affordable for a pool pros as well.
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And it has some of them have depending on which model you have, have some unique functions.
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And that's what we're going to talk about today, right?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You got it.
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Well, let's get in really quick about you and I uh ITS industrial test systems, and you know, give us a little bit of background about industrial test systems and and their role in the industry.
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Happy to.
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So it's a company that started in 1989.
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Um, it's we are pretty diversified across a lot of industries.
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Um pool professionals is one that we really enjoy, one I personally really enjoy working with.
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Um, I work with those in the Northeast and down to Florida as well.
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Um, but we we have a very large product line.
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Um, we of course do the digital photometers that you already mentioned.
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We have pool tablets as well, things that like phosphate removing tablets or pH minus, pH plus, things of that nature.
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Um, so um they're constantly uh the the founder of the company is a chemist, and we make it all here in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
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Um, we we manufacture all the tablets, all the reagent strips, everything is manufactured right here in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
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Um, family-owned business, and again, been operating since 1989.
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So it's it's been uh an awesome ride, and it's it's awesome to be here too.
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I remember years and I'm going back 10 years.
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I took the the owner, the chemist, he was teaching the class at our Florida pool show, and it was awesome.
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And then you guys always are at a lot of the conferences uh around the country and stuff like that.
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They have a booth that you they usually have water right there.
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You can test out the photometer with the water at their booth, yep, nice.
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And I seen seen you guys at I think a lot of them, because I I go to a lot of them, the international, the northeast, the Florida show, stuff like that.
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So it's always fun to kind of play around and check it out before you buy it, right?
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Absolutely.
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I think the next one isn't gonna be in New Orleans, if I'm not mistaken.
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Um, that one's that one's coming right up.
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So you'll you'll definitely see us out there if you're gonna be there.
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I'll be there.
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I'm teaching at the International Pool Show in New Orleans, so it coming up November, everybody, our listeners.
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All right, so let's talk about the photometer.
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What is the pool ease and who is it designed for?
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Uh so the pool easy is this handheld digital water testing photometer.
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Uh, it's designed for pool owners and pool professionals alike, and it's got 10 different pre-programmed uh testing parameters built right into it.
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And let's kind of talk about photometers, both of us here.
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So, our listeners, if they're new to the pool industry, um, what is that versus the manual we call the manual test?
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Like if you're using one of those test kit boxes, we're not gonna say names here of other companies, but what we'll meant mention you guys.
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But that manual testing versus a photometer testing, what's the difference is here?
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Well, I think it this this takes out a lot of the guesswork and the subjectivity of it.
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Um, some of those titration tests with the drops, you may you may not get them exactly right, or perhaps some of the the liquid.
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The measurement, you're right.
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The measurement comes out a little bit more.
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It's like a recipe.
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Yeah, it's like a recipe, right?
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You have to get it right and get the right drop size, hold your bottle.
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There's so many parts to the manual test that you can mess up the accuracy, and then it's either titration or color metrics.
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So we have that variation in readings versus a photometer using that fits wavelength of light that's shot through the sample.
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You're using the same kind of reagents, but you're removing the what the person thinks the readings are.
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Yes, units giving it to you digitally, correct?
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Yep, you get the you get the numbers right on the screen of the device, so it it just takes that guesswork out of it.
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So that's what I wanted the listeners to know.
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The difference is there's better accuracy out of this type of photometer than your manual test.
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And if you're looking for accuracy, especially when you're trying to, you know, do water balance with your language saturation index or anything like that, uh, and really pinpoint where you're at on that, or also for chemical dosing, it's better to have the most accurate method of testing.
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So, what makes the pool easy, different from other handheld uh photo photometers or pool testers?
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So it's it's very affordable, it's very easy for anybody to use.
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It's highly portable, it comes in a plastic hard case, lightweight.
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Um, as we already mentioned, it provides that digital result right there on the screen.
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And if you do have the Bluetooth version of the device, it can the results from the test can be shared to an app, our free app.
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And then you can save those results based on customer, based on location.
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You can email the results directly to the customers after they're taken.
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Um, and then of course, it's uh you can also export that data to a.csv file.
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Um, and most importantly, it's just very accurate and consistent.
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And then it also it has some it has some NSF level one certified tests on it as well.
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What do you know what offhand what those L1 certified tests are?
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Yeah, those that's gonna be the uh free chlorine, so for with DPD one.
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That's an important one for that.
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That's an important one for the health departments, right there, if you're dealing with public pools, guys.
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Very important.
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So that's free chlorine dpd one, the free chlorine or excuse me, combined chlorine dpd three, and then also pH.
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Okay, and phone at level one NSF3.
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Manual test, you're at I think an L3 because you're color matching, so it's not really an L1 at all.
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The accuracy is gonna be off.
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So this allows us to have an L1 certified under NSF, which is a big deal, guys.
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A lot of the health agencies will look at the accuracy of the test kit you're using when you're dealing with public pools.
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If you're cleaning and testing the water at those public pools, um, Florida was gonna require L1 certification across the board.
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We talked about that.
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Yeah, that was gonna be really interesting because I I'm not really aware of a lot of them that are out there that do total alkalinity and calcium hardness certified NSF L1.
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A lot of people out there, yeah.
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Yeah, free chlorine, combined chlorine I've seen, and pH I've seen at L1, but I haven't really seen those other tests.
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Sineuric acid as an L1.
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It's it's like that code was written, and then it was like didn't think about the test kits available.
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And that was in the Florida Health Code, but they backed off of that.
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So it came out, and then there was a memo that came out.
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Um, and they're not enforcing that right now, so you can still use manual tests, even.
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But I like the photometer here, it gives us that accuracy.
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I want to point out something that you mentioned about the Bluetooth technology.
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Um, that is really cool, listeners.
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If you're a pool builder and you have or you're a pool company doing startups, meaning the first 30 days of a concrete pool show in the ground, they fill it up with water the first 28, 30 days.
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You're following some startup method, maybe the uh MPC National Plaster Council startup uh method.
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You got to keep that water chemistry very specific along with your other steps.
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And a lot of times, if there's an issue with the surface staining or anything, the startup company gets blamed, right?
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Because they didn't keep their water chemistry very specific for the startup.
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It's not meant for swimming, it's meant for that concrete to cure properly.
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And so this is a good way to test the water and be able to store the information to the app, send it to the customer, and there's no skewing of data.
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If you're handwriting your from a manual test, they could claim the customer could claim, well, you could have written whatever you wanted to make that look good for the startup.
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So this is a way that you're not skewing that data, you're gonna make sure it's right because you know it's gonna be safe and sent to the customer that way, and so it's a really good like legality type thing here, you know, legal, uh like they took you to court because they want you to get the stain issue on their surface fits or whatever.
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Well, you have some data to back you up, and photometers are testing the water, there's no manual testing involved there, and then it's saving that information straight from the unit to that web-based app.
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So it's really awesome.
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I love I love to at least see show the listeners how it can be applied.
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Yeah.
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And that's just that's one example.
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The other example is is you've got more accurate testing for public pools as well.
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Uh-huh.
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All right.
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So, what does it mean if, and I think we kind of touched on this, but I'm gonna let you just make sure it's defined here.
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What does it mean if it's NSF L1 level one certified?
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Yes, so we did touch on that, and I'm sure most of your listeners already are aware, but it's just the highest third-party um certification of of a test.
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Just it just means it's independently evaluated by the National Science Foundation.
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So you can you can trust and have confidence in the results that you're getting with with those NSF level one tests that we've got on the device, which is again free chlorine, combined chlorine, and pH.
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Awesome.
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And what parameters outside, I know we mentioned the L1 with free chlorine, DPD, combined chlorine, dpd three, and the pH.
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What other parameters can the pool easy test for?
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So it's already pre-programmed for alkalinity.
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Uh, you've got total chlorine as well, chloride, calcium hardness, copper, cyanuric acid, and phosphates, and then also the ones that we mentioned before.
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Awesome, awesome.
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So the copper is important because uh it's metal staining, causes that uh green, clear water situation.
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So the copper level, knowing that from time to time is good.
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Uh chloride, I'm assuming that's salt chloride concentration in case you have a salt generator.
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And the phosphates, gee, wonder why that's important.
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Algae.
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It's the food, the main food source for algae.
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So you want to know how high it is.
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And you know, most industry experts kind of state that anything above 125 parts per billion should be removed.
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And you guys actually mentioned you mentioned earlier that you guys have a phosphate tab.
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Yeah, we do.
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And I I that's one of my favorites that we offer.
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Um, and I'm happy to jump into it now or whenever whenever you want.
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Oh, we could even have a separate, separate podcast just for that when we get into phosphate.
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We could I could talk about that one for a little while.
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But I love I love the phosphate tablet, the phosphate removing tablets.
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Um, they are just so effective at saving time and money.
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And so that's I know how that's important for everybody in every industry, especially pool service pros.
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Exactly.
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So, how does the pool easy actually work?
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Very simple.
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Again, it's it's made for just about anybody, so any lay person can do it, especially a pool professional.
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So you just turn the device on by hitting the zero on button.
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You dip the you dip it into the pool, typically about elbow deep, to get a well-mixed sample.
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Or you can that whole unit can go underwater.
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It's waterproof.
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It's waterproof.
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So that whole unit's meant to go underwater.
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So that's important.
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What he just said, the elbow or 18 inches down, as he said, is important.
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That's something we teach in CPO.
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So I'm glad that you mentioned that.
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Yep.
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So yeah, thank you for pointing that out.
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You don't have to be afraid to just dip the sample cell in, uh, which is on the very front of the device.
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You dip it all the way in, it is waterproof.
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You're not gonna have any issues with that.
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Um, once you have that in the the four millimeter sample cell filled, you are gonna hit zero.
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Excuse me, you're gonna select your test, let's say alkalinity in this case.
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So you're gonna hit menu until you see AL on the screen.
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You'll hit zero on again, and then you'll take your reagent strip for alkalinity, and then you'll hit the read button at the top, and then it'll say 20 seconds, and you'll gently move the reagent strip back and forth in that sample cell while the device counts down from 20.
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When you get down to one second, you can just discard the sample, or you can discard the reagent strip, and then a few seconds after that, you'll have your result, and that's it.
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And it's digitally displayed.
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It's gonna display the result right there on the screen.
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And again, if you have that Bluetooth version, it's gonna it's gonna send and you're your your if you have the Bluetooth version and it's connected to your app on your iPad or your iPhone or your Android phone, it's gonna save that result right there.
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That's super easy.
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Wow.
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And then I want to point out this is also good for your text, pool techs, pool pros that are um colorblind.
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Because we don't have to worry about being able to see color or not here.
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Photometers kind of help.
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So that's awesome.
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Are all the reagents for it different?
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Yes, they are.
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So if you were testing pH, you'd use a different uh you'd use a different reagentship for that, alkalinity, free chlorine, and so on.
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They're all going to be they're all gonna be different and they come in bottles generally.
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Awesome.
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Um, you mentioned an app.
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Does it um have have to use an app or can the unit work on its own?
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It doesn't have to use the app, which is one of the cool things about this particular one.
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You you can, and we've obviously talked about the advantages of using the app, especially for startups and tool builders.
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Um, but it obviously it's got a lot of advantages for anybody.
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But no, you do not have to use the app.
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If you just want to use if you want to see the result on the screen, take your pen and paper and write it down that way because you've done it for a long time.
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That's fine.
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You can do that too.
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You don't have to use the app.
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Awesome.
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And you already talked about how it exports everything.
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Um, if you're using the app as well, and you can export it to a CSV file, which is basically in itself.
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Yeah, yeah, and it keeps that log right there for you, which is awesome.
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Um, does it come with any warranty?
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So it does come with a 30-day money-back guarantee in addition to a two-year warranty.
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How much does the uh pool easy cost?
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So the starter kit with bottles of reagents, not all the reagents for all the tests.
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Um, it typically will retail for$329.99.
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But we are offering a special discount code for your listeners and your students uh with 30% off.
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Um, and that'll put the price of the the pool easy starter kit at$230.99.
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We have a master kit that's gonna come with all of the reagents for all 10 test parameters, and that would only be$234.99.
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So$234.49.
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So for$4.49 more, uh, approximately, you know, you can have all the reagents for all 10 tests on the device.
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We have a pro kit as well, um, which with the discount, it would be$5.24.
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And that one will also come with one of our pH beaters, too.
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So uh we've got a lot of options, and and you know, not only is it very affordable, especially with your discount code, Lauren, but you also um, you know, the reagents are also affordable, very affordable too.
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What is that discount code that you mentioned for Space Coast Pool School for that 30% off for the listeners that are gonna be customers of Space Coast Pool School?
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It is gonna just gonna be Space Coast 30.
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Space Coast 30.
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You can do it on the website or you can reach out to me directly and I can I can help you with that.
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And we're gonna get your contact info at the end here, and then we'll give them the website and everything, and we'll re-mention that discount code again at the very end for everybody.
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So you mentioned uh earlier uh something about a pool tablet.
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Can you share some information about that?
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Yes.
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So we talked briefly uh about the phosphate removing tablets.
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So uh it's we've got some other ones too, but the phosphate removing tablet is my favorite.
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So it's super easy.
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You just throw them in the skimmer basket, and one can remove up to 500 parts per billion in a 10,000-gallon pool.
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Wow, they they don't create any cloudy mass, there's no flock, you don't have to shut down the pool.
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Um, and if there's no phosphates present, they do not dissolve, they just sit in there.
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They can they typically, if there are phosphates present, will dissolve slowly over the course of two to four weeks.
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Um and yeah, they're they're just phenomenal.
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We I had a woman in New Jersey, she runs a couple of pool stores up there, and her personal pool level, she had a level of phosphates of 1,000 parts per billion.
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And so I want to earn her business, so I sent her some for free.
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And she had two, I can't, I think it was a 26,000-gallon pool.
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And so her phosphates were crazy high.
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And she had two skimmer baskets.
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So I said, put four in each of your skimmer baskets because you really can't overload it with these tablets.
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And within a week, she called me back and said, My phosphate levels are down to a hundred parts per billion.
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So they're extremely effective.
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She didn't have to do anything except just put them in there.
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Um, and again, if there's no phosphates present, they just they don't they don't dissolve.
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They just basically sit around and wait for phosphates to to show up.
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So great for pool openings, um, really effective for that.
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And if your phosphate levels are already under control after the opening, you can just keep one or two in the skimmer basket.
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But if you have a situation like hers where they're, you know, the phosphate levels are just kind of out of control, don't be shy to put four or five, six even in a skimmer basket just to get it under control.
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Um, and they will dissolve faster with with the higher levels of phosphates in there.
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But once they get under control, the dissolving rate will slow down.
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It sounds like it's used as kind of a preventative if the phosphates aren't high.
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So it can be it is a preventative as well, but it can be the solution if the phosphate levels are high too.
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Um, it may not be as quick as as some other products, just because if somebody wants to get them down right away, you know, you you may have to end up shutting the pool down, coming back the next day, vacuuming up everything off the bottom.
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Um, but this it is it is a great preventative tool, but also, excuse me, it also is good for you know, if it's already high too, like hearse scenario.
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Awesome.
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Well, this has been awesome.
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I I really enjoyed talking to you about the pool easy and how easy it sounds to use it and the accuracy of those uh L1 certified tests, especially uh and the uses that our pool pros can use for it.
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So um, so we want to mention again that any listeners, since you're uh with me and Space Coast Pool School through the Let's Talk About Pools podcast as well, that we have a discount code for 30% off any of their testers and other products.
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It's Space Coast30.
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Space Coast30.
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Yep.
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And you what's the website they could go to if they wanted to order anything and use that discount code?
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Yeah, our website is sensafe.com, www.sensafe s-en-sa-f e dot com.
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And can I give them my number and an email?
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Yeah.
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My my direct line here is 803 579 4139.
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And my email is tdprotoro at sensafe.
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So t d I p r e t o r o at sensafe.com.
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Awesome.
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And please check them out.
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You're the one we've been talking about is the pool easy, P O O L and then Easy, the letter E, the letter Z.
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Yep.
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Make it real easy to find on their website, Google it, whatever.
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But reach out to uh Tyler here.
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He can help you out as well.
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You got his number already.
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He mentioned it just a minute ago.
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Uh, but please check them out.
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And thank you for being on the podcast today, Tyler.
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Yeah, thank you for having me.
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It's been awesome.
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Thanks for diving in today with the Let's Talk About Fools podcast.
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Welcome, pool guys, and gals to the Let's Talk About Pools podcast, where your host, Lauren Broom, will take a splash into many topics in the pool industry to educate all aquatic professionals.
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Listen in, and you just might be surprised what to learn.
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So let's jump right in.
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Welcome everybody today to the Let's Talk About Pools podcast.
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And on today's episode 84, I talked to Tyler Di Pretoro with ITS, and we talked about easy and accurate pool water testing with the pool easy photometer made by ITS, Industrial Test Systems.
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So I hope that you sit in and listen to this episode because I've never had a test kit manufacturer on before, and Photometer is one of the more accurate methods of testing.
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I want to say thank you to our strategic podcast sponsor as always, Pool Brain, for supporting pool podcast education, which is free to our industry for our listeners.
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So let's jump right in.
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But before we do that, let's listen into what Pool Brain can offer our pool pros.
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I talked to so many customers that are using this app for this feature, this app for this, and this app for this, and said, Well, why don't you just use Pool Brain?
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Because we can do it all.
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I absolutely love Pool Brain.
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There's not a better app on the market.
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We've tested a ton of different ones and we landed on Pool Brain for a reason.
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We have well over 6,000 pools on FoolBrain.
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We've been on a few other platforms in the past, and this one's been by far the best one we've been on.
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Just very intuitive and easy to use for full professionals and very obviously made for full professionals, and I really love it.
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I love we love full brain, baby.
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When you have a focus for our industry, for the service professional, I believe that everybody wants.
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And on my episode today, I get to interview Tyler Deep Pretoro.
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He's product manager with Industrial Test Systems.
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Welcome today to the podcast, uh, Tyler.
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How are you?
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I'm well.
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Thank you for having me.
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Yes, excited to have you guys on.
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I think you're the first uh company I've had on about like the actual photometer we would use for testing water.
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I've had water chemistry, I've had all kinds of stuff.
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I've had ORP on here, but I've never had where we talk to a manufacturer that makes an L1 certified photometer that is pretty affordable for a pool pros as well.
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And it has some of them have depending on which model you have, have some unique functions.
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And that's what we're going to talk about today, right?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You got it.
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Well, let's get in really quick about you and I uh ITS industrial test systems, and you know, give us a little bit of background about industrial test systems and and their role in the industry.
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Happy to.
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So it's a company that started in 1989.
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Um, it's we are pretty diversified across a lot of industries.
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Um pool professionals is one that we really enjoy, one I personally really enjoy working with.
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Um, I work with those in the Northeast and down to Florida as well.
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Um, but we we have a very large product line.
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Um, we of course do the digital photometers that you already mentioned.
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We have pool tablets as well, things that like phosphate removing tablets or pH minus, pH plus, things of that nature.
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Um, so um they're constantly uh the the founder of the company is a chemist, and we make it all here in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
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Um, we we manufacture all the tablets, all the reagent strips, everything is manufactured right here in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
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Um, family-owned business, and again, been operating since 1989.
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So it's it's been uh an awesome ride, and it's it's awesome to be here too.
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I remember years and I'm going back 10 years.
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I took the the owner, the chemist, he was teaching the class at our Florida pool show, and it was awesome.
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And then you guys always are at a lot of the conferences uh around the country and stuff like that.
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They have a booth that you they usually have water right there.
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You can test out the photometer with the water at their booth, yep, nice.
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And I seen seen you guys at I think a lot of them, because I I go to a lot of them, the international, the northeast, the Florida show, stuff like that.
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So it's always fun to kind of play around and check it out before you buy it, right?
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Absolutely.
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I think the next one isn't gonna be in New Orleans, if I'm not mistaken.
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Um, that one's that one's coming right up.
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So you'll you'll definitely see us out there if you're gonna be there.
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I'll be there.
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I'm teaching at the International Pool Show in New Orleans, so it coming up November, everybody, our listeners.
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All right, so let's talk about the photometer.
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What is the pool ease and who is it designed for?
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Uh so the pool easy is this handheld digital water testing photometer.
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Uh, it's designed for pool owners and pool professionals alike, and it's got 10 different pre-programmed uh testing parameters built right into it.
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And let's kind of talk about photometers, both of us here.
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So, our listeners, if they're new to the pool industry, um, what is that versus the manual we call the manual test?
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Like if you're using one of those test kit boxes, we're not gonna say names here of other companies, but what we'll meant mention you guys.
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But that manual testing versus a photometer testing, what's the difference is here?
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Well, I think it this this takes out a lot of the guesswork and the subjectivity of it.
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Um, some of those titration tests with the drops, you may you may not get them exactly right, or perhaps some of the the liquid.
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The measurement, you're right.
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The measurement comes out a little bit more.
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It's like a recipe.
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Yeah, it's like a recipe, right?
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You have to get it right and get the right drop size, hold your bottle.
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There's so many parts to the manual test that you can mess up the accuracy, and then it's either titration or color metrics.
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So we have that variation in readings versus a photometer using that fits wavelength of light that's shot through the sample.
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You're using the same kind of reagents, but you're removing the what the person thinks the readings are.
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Yes, units giving it to you digitally, correct?
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Yep, you get the you get the numbers right on the screen of the device, so it it just takes that guesswork out of it.
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So that's what I wanted the listeners to know.
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The difference is there's better accuracy out of this type of photometer than your manual test.
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And if you're looking for accuracy, especially when you're trying to, you know, do water balance with your language saturation index or anything like that, uh, and really pinpoint where you're at on that, or also for chemical dosing, it's better to have the most accurate method of testing.
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So, what makes the pool easy, different from other handheld uh photo photometers or pool testers?
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So it's it's very affordable, it's very easy for anybody to use.
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It's highly portable, it comes in a plastic hard case, lightweight.
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Um, as we already mentioned, it provides that digital result right there on the screen.
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And if you do have the Bluetooth version of the device, it can the results from the test can be shared to an app, our free app.
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And then you can save those results based on customer, based on location.
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You can email the results directly to the customers after they're taken.
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Um, and then of course, it's uh you can also export that data to a.csv file.
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Um, and most importantly, it's just very accurate and consistent.
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And then it also it has some it has some NSF level one certified tests on it as well.
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What do you know what offhand what those L1 certified tests are?
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Yeah, those that's gonna be the uh free chlorine, so for with DPD one.
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That's an important one for that.
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That's an important one for the health departments, right there, if you're dealing with public pools, guys.
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Very important.
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So that's free chlorine dpd one, the free chlorine or excuse me, combined chlorine dpd three, and then also pH.
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Okay, and phone at level one NSF3.
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Manual test, you're at I think an L3 because you're color matching, so it's not really an L1 at all.
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The accuracy is gonna be off.
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So this allows us to have an L1 certified under NSF, which is a big deal, guys.
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A lot of the health agencies will look at the accuracy of the test kit you're using when you're dealing with public pools.
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If you're cleaning and testing the water at those public pools, um, Florida was gonna require L1 certification across the board.
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We talked about that.
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Yeah, that was gonna be really interesting because I I'm not really aware of a lot of them that are out there that do total alkalinity and calcium hardness certified NSF L1.
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A lot of people out there, yeah.
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Yeah, free chlorine, combined chlorine I've seen, and pH I've seen at L1, but I haven't really seen those other tests.
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Sineuric acid as an L1.
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It's it's like that code was written, and then it was like didn't think about the test kits available.
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And that was in the Florida Health Code, but they backed off of that.
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So it came out, and then there was a memo that came out.
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Um, and they're not enforcing that right now, so you can still use manual tests, even.
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But I like the photometer here, it gives us that accuracy.
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I want to point out something that you mentioned about the Bluetooth technology.
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Um, that is really cool, listeners.
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If you're a pool builder and you have or you're a pool company doing startups, meaning the first 30 days of a concrete pool show in the ground, they fill it up with water the first 28, 30 days.
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You're following some startup method, maybe the uh MPC National Plaster Council startup uh method.
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You got to keep that water chemistry very specific along with your other steps.
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And a lot of times, if there's an issue with the surface staining or anything, the startup company gets blamed, right?
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Because they didn't keep their water chemistry very specific for the startup.
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It's not meant for swimming, it's meant for that concrete to cure properly.
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And so this is a good way to test the water and be able to store the information to the app, send it to the customer, and there's no skewing of data.
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If you're handwriting your from a manual test, they could claim the customer could claim, well, you could have written whatever you wanted to make that look good for the startup.
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So this is a way that you're not skewing that data, you're gonna make sure it's right because you know it's gonna be safe and sent to the customer that way, and so it's a really good like legality type thing here, you know, legal, uh like they took you to court because they want you to get the stain issue on their surface fits or whatever.
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Well, you have some data to back you up, and photometers are testing the water, there's no manual testing involved there, and then it's saving that information straight from the unit to that web-based app.
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So it's really awesome.
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I love I love to at least see show the listeners how it can be applied.
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Yeah.
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And that's just that's one example.
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The other example is is you've got more accurate testing for public pools as well.
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Uh-huh.
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All right.
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So, what does it mean if, and I think we kind of touched on this, but I'm gonna let you just make sure it's defined here.
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What does it mean if it's NSF L1 level one certified?
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Yes, so we did touch on that, and I'm sure most of your listeners already are aware, but it's just the highest third-party um certification of of a test.
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Just it just means it's independently evaluated by the National Science Foundation.
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So you can you can trust and have confidence in the results that you're getting with with those NSF level one tests that we've got on the device, which is again free chlorine, combined chlorine, and pH.
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Awesome.
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And what parameters outside, I know we mentioned the L1 with free chlorine, DPD, combined chlorine, dpd three, and the pH.
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What other parameters can the pool easy test for?
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So it's already pre-programmed for alkalinity.
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Uh, you've got total chlorine as well, chloride, calcium hardness, copper, cyanuric acid, and phosphates, and then also the ones that we mentioned before.
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Awesome, awesome.
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So the copper is important because uh it's metal staining, causes that uh green, clear water situation.
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So the copper level, knowing that from time to time is good.
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Uh chloride, I'm assuming that's salt chloride concentration in case you have a salt generator.
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And the phosphates, gee, wonder why that's important.
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Algae.
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It's the food, the main food source for algae.
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So you want to know how high it is.
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And you know, most industry experts kind of state that anything above 125 parts per billion should be removed.
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And you guys actually mentioned you mentioned earlier that you guys have a phosphate tab.
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Yeah, we do.
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And I I that's one of my favorites that we offer.
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Um, and I'm happy to jump into it now or whenever whenever you want.
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Oh, we could even have a separate, separate podcast just for that when we get into phosphate.
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We could I could talk about that one for a little while.
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But I love I love the phosphate tablet, the phosphate removing tablets.
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Um, they are just so effective at saving time and money.
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And so that's I know how that's important for everybody in every industry, especially pool service pros.
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Exactly.
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So, how does the pool easy actually work?
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Very simple.
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Again, it's it's made for just about anybody, so any lay person can do it, especially a pool professional.
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So you just turn the device on by hitting the zero on button.
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You dip the you dip it into the pool, typically about elbow deep, to get a well-mixed sample.
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Or you can that whole unit can go underwater.
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It's waterproof.
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It's waterproof.
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So that whole unit's meant to go underwater.
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So that's important.
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What he just said, the elbow or 18 inches down, as he said, is important.
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That's something we teach in CPO.
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So I'm glad that you mentioned that.
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Yep.
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So yeah, thank you for pointing that out.
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You don't have to be afraid to just dip the sample cell in, uh, which is on the very front of the device.
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You dip it all the way in, it is waterproof.
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You're not gonna have any issues with that.
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Um, once you have that in the the four millimeter sample cell filled, you are gonna hit zero.
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Excuse me, you're gonna select your test, let's say alkalinity in this case.
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So you're gonna hit menu until you see AL on the screen.
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You'll hit zero on again, and then you'll take your reagent strip for alkalinity, and then you'll hit the read button at the top, and then it'll say 20 seconds, and you'll gently move the reagent strip back and forth in that sample cell while the device counts down from 20.
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When you get down to one second, you can just discard the sample, or you can discard the reagent strip, and then a few seconds after that, you'll have your result, and that's it.
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And it's digitally displayed.
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It's gonna display the result right there on the screen.
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And again, if you have that Bluetooth version, it's gonna it's gonna send and you're your your if you have the Bluetooth version and it's connected to your app on your iPad or your iPhone or your Android phone, it's gonna save that result right there.
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That's super easy.
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Wow.
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And then I want to point out this is also good for your text, pool techs, pool pros that are um colorblind.
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Because we don't have to worry about being able to see color or not here.
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Photometers kind of help.
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So that's awesome.
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Are all the reagents for it different?
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Yes, they are.
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So if you were testing pH, you'd use a different uh you'd use a different reagentship for that, alkalinity, free chlorine, and so on.
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They're all going to be they're all gonna be different and they come in bottles generally.
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Awesome.
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Um, you mentioned an app.
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Does it um have have to use an app or can the unit work on its own?
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It doesn't have to use the app, which is one of the cool things about this particular one.
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You you can, and we've obviously talked about the advantages of using the app, especially for startups and tool builders.
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Um, but it obviously it's got a lot of advantages for anybody.
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But no, you do not have to use the app.
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If you just want to use if you want to see the result on the screen, take your pen and paper and write it down that way because you've done it for a long time.
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That's fine.
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You can do that too.
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You don't have to use the app.
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Awesome.
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And you already talked about how it exports everything.
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Um, if you're using the app as well, and you can export it to a CSV file, which is basically in itself.
00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:44.640
Yeah, yeah, and it keeps that log right there for you, which is awesome.
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Um, does it come with any warranty?
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So it does come with a 30-day money-back guarantee in addition to a two-year warranty.
00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.480
How much does the uh pool easy cost?
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So the starter kit with bottles of reagents, not all the reagents for all the tests.
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Um, it typically will retail for$329.99.
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But we are offering a special discount code for your listeners and your students uh with 30% off.
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Um, and that'll put the price of the the pool easy starter kit at$230.99.
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We have a master kit that's gonna come with all of the reagents for all 10 test parameters, and that would only be$234.99.
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So$234.49.
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So for$4.49 more, uh, approximately, you know, you can have all the reagents for all 10 tests on the device.
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We have a pro kit as well, um, which with the discount, it would be$5.24.
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And that one will also come with one of our pH beaters, too.
00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:58.319
So uh we've got a lot of options, and and you know, not only is it very affordable, especially with your discount code, Lauren, but you also um, you know, the reagents are also affordable, very affordable too.
00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:07.920
What is that discount code that you mentioned for Space Coast Pool School for that 30% off for the listeners that are gonna be customers of Space Coast Pool School?
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It is gonna just gonna be Space Coast 30.
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Space Coast 30.
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You can do it on the website or you can reach out to me directly and I can I can help you with that.
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And we're gonna get your contact info at the end here, and then we'll give them the website and everything, and we'll re-mention that discount code again at the very end for everybody.
00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:29.119
So you mentioned uh earlier uh something about a pool tablet.
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Can you share some information about that?
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Yes.
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So we talked briefly uh about the phosphate removing tablets.
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So uh it's we've got some other ones too, but the phosphate removing tablet is my favorite.
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So it's super easy.
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You just throw them in the skimmer basket, and one can remove up to 500 parts per billion in a 10,000-gallon pool.
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Wow, they they don't create any cloudy mass, there's no flock, you don't have to shut down the pool.
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Um, and if there's no phosphates present, they do not dissolve, they just sit in there.
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They can they typically, if there are phosphates present, will dissolve slowly over the course of two to four weeks.
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Um and yeah, they're they're just phenomenal.
00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:19.599
We I had a woman in New Jersey, she runs a couple of pool stores up there, and her personal pool level, she had a level of phosphates of 1,000 parts per billion.
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And so I want to earn her business, so I sent her some for free.
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And she had two, I can't, I think it was a 26,000-gallon pool.
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And so her phosphates were crazy high.
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And she had two skimmer baskets.
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So I said, put four in each of your skimmer baskets because you really can't overload it with these tablets.
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And within a week, she called me back and said, My phosphate levels are down to a hundred parts per billion.
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So they're extremely effective.
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She didn't have to do anything except just put them in there.
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Um, and again, if there's no phosphates present, they just they don't they don't dissolve.
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They just basically sit around and wait for phosphates to to show up.
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So great for pool openings, um, really effective for that.
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And if your phosphate levels are already under control after the opening, you can just keep one or two in the skimmer basket.
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But if you have a situation like hers where they're, you know, the phosphate levels are just kind of out of control, don't be shy to put four or five, six even in a skimmer basket just to get it under control.
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Um, and they will dissolve faster with with the higher levels of phosphates in there.
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But once they get under control, the dissolving rate will slow down.
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It sounds like it's used as kind of a preventative if the phosphates aren't high.
00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:38.000
So it can be it is a preventative as well, but it can be the solution if the phosphate levels are high too.
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Um, it may not be as quick as as some other products, just because if somebody wants to get them down right away, you know, you you may have to end up shutting the pool down, coming back the next day, vacuuming up everything off the bottom.
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Um, but this it is it is a great preventative tool, but also, excuse me, it also is good for you know, if it's already high too, like hearse scenario.
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Awesome.
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Well, this has been awesome.
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I I really enjoyed talking to you about the pool easy and how easy it sounds to use it and the accuracy of those uh L1 certified tests, especially uh and the uses that our pool pros can use for it.
00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:36.240
So um, so we want to mention again that any listeners, since you're uh with me and Space Coast Pool School through the Let's Talk About Pools podcast as well, that we have a discount code for 30% off any of their testers and other products.
00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.400
It's Space Coast30.
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Space Coast30.
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Yep.
00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:45.680
And you what's the website they could go to if they wanted to order anything and use that discount code?
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Yeah, our website is sensafe.com, www.sensafe s-en-sa-f e dot com.
00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:57.119
And can I give them my number and an email?
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Yeah.
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My my direct line here is 803 579 4139.
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And my email is tdprotoro at sensafe.
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So t d I p r e t o r o at sensafe.com.
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Awesome.
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And please check them out.
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You're the one we've been talking about is the pool easy, P O O L and then Easy, the letter E, the letter Z.
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Yep.
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Make it real easy to find on their website, Google it, whatever.
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But reach out to uh Tyler here.
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He can help you out as well.
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You got his number already.
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He mentioned it just a minute ago.
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Uh, but please check them out.
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And thank you for being on the podcast today, Tyler.
00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:46.640
Yeah, thank you for having me.
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It's been awesome.
00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:53.119
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