The Bluelab Probe Care Kit for pH is an essential product for owners of hydroponic pH meters. When you buy a Bluelab meter of any kind, you know you are getting the best money can buy. They don’t always come cheap so you’ll likely want to take good care of it! Not only will doing so help you get consistently accurate readings but it will increase their working life. The manufacturers, Bluelab, know what they are talking about when it comes to quality, accurate meters. The Bluelab Probe Care Kit for pH is a brilliant product for the care of their (and other brand) meters.
When is regular use, pH meters can pick up all sorts of grime and deposits from the solution. The salts present in the mix can build up and will eventually cause readings to be off. Calibration can help, but leaving the probe dirty will continue to cause issues. The solutions and tools in the Bluelab Probe Care Kit for pH help you get the probes back to a good condition. Always follow the instructions carefully; these are precision instruments after all! Find more info on this product on the Bluelab Website (Opens a new window).
Apart from the Care Kit for pH, what other probe care products are available?
pH meters are fairly delicate in their construction and require a little care to operate at the optimum level. These kits will clean the probe, but you can also invest in a Storage Solution for use between uses. This consists of a KCL solution which is the same chemical inside the probe. This essentially helps preserve the probe a lot better than storing it in water, which “waters down” the probe chemicals.
At Straight Up Hydro, we have a few other products for maintaining and calibrating pH and EC Meters. These include the Bluelab Probe Care Kit for Conductivity, the pH & Conductivity kit and Growth Technology Probe Cleaner. We also have pH Buffer 4 and 7 to help calibrate your meter, as well as EC Standard 1.413 and 2.76, if you have a meter that does pH and EC readings. All of these are on our site, here.
