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What I was hoping for was to try and get $10 from those interested and even less if enough people were interested in doing this. Just enough to cover costs.
I have about 1/2 the salts already in unopened containers.
Depending on funding we may need to limit the salts and those who contribute get a say in things.
From previous thread:
What I'd really like to see even for just the most casual of users is a breakdown on Calcium, Alk & Mg levels of the salts and how balanced they are from something a little better then our typical test kits. It would be nice to have a new "baseline" on these 3 items as the last useful test was in 2005 and everybody posts different Ca/Alk numbers for the same salts on here!
We should be able to get some decent data from the test even though it's not super "pro" tested like ENC. How many grams of salt per gallon of water to arrive at 35% salinity. Can then figure out exactly how much water at 35% can be prepared from each bag/bucket of salt.
Initial pH, at 1hr, 5hrs, 24hrs.
I could also drop an ORP probe in the salt as it's mixing and record it at 5,10,15,... minute increments. Could be extrapolated to how fast the mix clears/dissolves. This may or may not be useful but I can do it so why not.
Any other simple "pre-test" that could be done before sending the samples I'd do if people have any ideas or requests.
We can all discuss exact mixing & procedures ahead of time to handle everything the best we can to not contaminate anything. We could also do a pure RO/DI test also just to double check to make sure no silica/phosphates are in the water and falsely raising the salt levels. I doubt it but it technically should be done.
All ideas are welcome,
Carlo
People onboard thus far and willing to contribute:
cayars
Antman
Boomer
HowardW
Dr Begalke
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