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RE: Test kits --Lovely Reader Meter Made
- To: <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
- Subject: RE: Test kits --Lovely Reader Meter Made
- From: "Schenck, Lyndle" <lschenck at dcscorp_com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:04:17 -0400
- Thread-index: AcIz7CURn20Cyfg3ST2Zl1x5hccuRwAAB/cQ
- Thread-topic: Test kits --Lovely Reader Meter Made
Sorry about the lack of line breaks on my previous post.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schenck, Lyndle
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:01 AM
> To: 'Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com'
> Subject: Test kits --Lovely Reader Meter Made
>
> There are several companies that market general purpose
> "field" spectrophotometers and colorimeters.
>
> LaMotte has a "SMART Spectro" for around $1,600 plus
> another $350 for essential extras and a "SMART Colorimeter"
> for $900 plus another $285 for the extras. Both use LaMotte
> reagent kits that cost from $13.50 (high range Phosphate) to
> $146 (Ozone) with around $30 for the mean.
>
> Both sets, of course, have far greater precision and accuracy
> that even the most fanatical of us could possibly need.
> However, If I won the lottery......
>
> I wonder if there would be a market for a much cheaper colorimeter
> if the trade offs in precision, accuracy, etc were acceptable?
Lyndle Schenck
> >Hach makes a nice spectrophotometer for only about $4,000.00. Start saving
> >your pennies now, or get chummy with a buddy in a local college or
> >university. You can get nitrate accurate to the nearest tenth of a part
> >per million. For those of you who want to pinch pennies, Hach makes
> >portable model for only around $2,000.00. What are you waiting for?
> >Cheap!
>
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