To enjoy your spa to the full, you need to make sure your water quality is good. To do this, you need to analyse it regularly so that you can make the right changes. In this article, we outline the various steps you need to take to ensure crystal-clear spa water quality.
Maintaining good water quality is essential not only for your health, but also for the long-term maintenance of your equipment.
Balanced water improves the effectiveness of the treatment required for disinfection. To check water balance, three parameters are measured:
Note that pH must be measured at least once a week, and TH and TAC once a month.
L’ORP / Redox correspond à l’efficacité de la désinfection de votre bassin, et doit idéalement se situer entre 650 et 750mV. Ce paramètre varie plus rapidement que les autres, car il dépend des valeurs Ph ET UV. Il doit donc être vérifier au minimum une fois par semaine, afin d’agir le plus rapidement possible en cas de problème.
Afin de contrôler la désinfection de votre spa, vous devrez tester d’autres paramètres de l’eau. Pour cela, vous aurez le choix entre des bandelettes de test, des testeurs électroniques ou des analyseurs d’eau connectés.
This is the most affordable analysis tool in terms of price (between 20 and 30 centimes per test). Results can be interpreted by the color on the strip. Test strip readers are also available, providing digital readouts (costing around €100).
Plus fiables que les bandelettes, ils permettent une lecture numérique très précise. Toutefois, un étalonnage régulier des sondes est nécessaire.
Finally, many testers focus on a single parameter (pH or ORP), while others analyze several water indicators, offering a more comprehensive and practical solution.
These intelligent analyzers measure key water parameters several times a day, and are very easy to use. For example, ICO Spa gives you access to the results of your measurements via an application available on your smartphone, as well as recommendations.
You should know thathere are some really practical, easy-to-use connected probes that measure PH and ORP at the same time, and are more reliable than test strips.
There are several categories of chlorine: total chlorine, active chlorine, free chlorine and potential chlorine. It's important to know which chlorine is being measured.
If you use strips in particular, they measure total chlorine or free chlorine, which are not an indicator of water disinfection. They measure a quantity of disinfectant, active or otherwise. This can lead to a misinterpretation of the chlorine content of your spa and the disinfection of the water.
A probe such as ICO spa measures active chlorine, the only one responsible for disinfecting the water. The same applies to bromine. To measure water disinfection, ICO Spa measures the electrical current delivered by all the chemical agents used for disinfection.
We recommend using a floating spa diffuser to dilute treatment products more quickly throughout the pool.
ICO SPA measures and analyses your water 24/7. It also sends you personalised spa maintenance recommendations via the app.
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