PH/EC Testers. What Do You Use?

[Weedhound]

Yeah the truncheon ph meter and the truncheon ppm/ec.....I've bought one of each and am waiting on them...one in the mail and one at my hydro store.

Gainesville...you echo a LOT of people with the Oaktons but I find my ultrabasic a little hard to read with my eyesight and the waterfarms.....you have to hit the hold button before you can pull it out and read it. That's my only real complaint about my Oakton. The truncheons seem almost MADE for the waterfarms.....but they ARE quite $$$....especially the ph meter.

And DON'T get me started on the Hannas.....I had two combo units of theirs and couldn't trust either one of them. :wtf:

Opie.....the truncheon ppm meters also never need to be calibrated. Nice touch. :thumbsup:

[Opie Yutts]

I was just ready to buy the Milwaukee SM802, then all of a sudden I didnâ??t. Iâ??ve spent a good part of the afternoon looking around for meters. I went with both the Bluelabâ??s truncheon models, one for PH, one for PPM/EC. I nearly bought the Bluelab combo meter, but then I looked for a combo meter with one probe for everything, and that led me to the Milwaukee. I vaguely remember reading something about one probe for everything not being ideal. I donâ??t know if that has any truth to it, and I donâ??t remember what the reasoning was.

Long story short I now am the proud owner of a 16â?� long, $150, PH meter with lotsa nice flashing lights to look at when Iâ??m stoned. And to compliment it a PPM meter of similar nature. As best as I can figure out, Milwaukee is a great brand. Bluelab is top of the line though, so I took the plunge.

Milwaukee sm802:
http://www.aquacave.com/detail.aspx?ID=611
What I liked:
Single probe for PH/EC/TDS
Price to get a reading for both PH and PPM ($150)

Bluelab truncheon models:
PH:
http://www.specialty-lights.com/716051.html
What I liked:
Big easy to read readout, since Iâ??ll still be using it when Iâ??m 95.
Flashing, pretty lights.
Automatic on and off
One touch calibration
3 year guarantee, one year on the probe. (Milwaukee is 2 years, and 6 mo. for the probe)
No buttons, dials, or switches
What I didnâ??t like:
$$$
Itâ??s a little bigger than I saw myself with.

EC/CF/PPM 500 scale/PPM 700 scale
http://www.specialty-lights.com/716050.html
What I liked:
Covers all the nutrient scales
Auto on and off
No calibration needed
Durable. They dropped it in in their video
5 year guarantee
No buttons, dials, or switches
Waterproof
Big and easy for my senile years
Yeah, I suppose the flashing lights
What I didnâ??t like:
$$$
Itâ??s a little bigger than I saw myself with.

Iâ??d better like these because Iâ??m pretty sure my wife wonâ??t (because of the price, and â??how many meters do you need?). I got them from Ebay, and I got a better deal than what other online or walk-in places were offering, and free shipping to boot.

Do you guys use any alternative to the store-bought probe cleaning solutions and probe storage solutions?

Here's some important info about CF,EC,PPM,TDS and mS/cm sq:
Bluelab
and here for a measurement conversion chart:
Bluelab : Measurement Conversion Chart

The first pic is the Milwaukee.

[Weedhound]

Yes....those are what I ordered Opie! Now they just need to make their way to me.... i'm told they are foolproof and accurate as hell and that's what I want.....despite all the $$$$$ spent (and there WERE $$$$$ spent...)

[stinkyattic]

pH: GH liquid indicator. It's VERY cheap and all you really need if you grow in compost or good soil, and your source water isn't outrageously bad.

EC: ehhh... I once licked the bottom of my pot to see how bad the salt tox I suspected was... does that count? It was pretty bad, in case anyone cares...

Caveat: I grow in compost. In hydro, I run Canna. I don't measure it. I'm not trying to tweak it hard enough to give a crap what the PPM is. Maybe one of these days...

If I cared, I'd go Truncheon all the way. Both of em. Maybe I'll ask my mom for a set for Christmas... you know, for my um... African violets... yeah...

Oh... HANNA SUCKS. They sent my old lab a bunch of pH electrodes a while back as freebies to test. At FREE, they were too expensive. THAT was a waste of time; we shoulda billed 'em for it. Ugh.

[Weedhound]

All right....I shouldn't....but I will. Are you saying your mom doesn't know you have 35 strains going on in your attic?

[Opie Yutts]

You're right, you shouldn't have.

But does she?

[Opie Yutts]

Both my truncheon meters arrived last night via UPS at about 10:30 PM. If you want to see kind of an interesting story about why it was so late go here:

http://boards.cannabis.com/cannabis-...-ph-meter.html

[stinkyattic]

All right....I shouldn't....but I will. Are you saying your mom doesn't know you have 35 strains going on in your attic?

Luckily I'm 30 and own my OWN place... so my mom not knowing about my grow is a little different... she's anti-pot to the max.

[GodBud]

I have the Milwaukie SM802

Great meter!

Peace

[Weedhound]

That's the interesting part......does Mom drop by? Does mom notice the the mother plant you have going in the bathroom with the mh light or no? Does she think you just grow a LOT of tomatoes???