Here my humble maintenance kit. No Scace, no refractometer (yet). Just a hardness meter, temp gauge and scale. I like that everything fits in my pocket.
Mini Maintenance Kit
Re: Mini Maintenance Kit
Total disolved solids (your meter) is not equivalent to hardness. If you check hard water with your meter and then run the water through a "softener" you will measure the same TDS since all you have done is to exchange hard minerals for soft ones.
Re: Mini Maintenance Kit
Yes. I use the TDS meter for the unsoftened tap water. I use this kit for the softened water (doesn't fit in the pocket though).MDL wrote:Total disolved solids (your meter) is not equivalent to hardness. If you check hard water with your meter and then run the water through a "softener" you will measure the same TDS since all you have done is to exchange hard minerals for soft ones.