How to use a pH meter

Using a pH meter to keep your tank plating solutions working efficiently

A pH meter will help you keep your tank plating solutions working at their highest efficiency. It's a good idea to monitor the pH balance of some our tank plating solutions but our Palladium Tank Plating Solution in particular needs to have regular pH readings taken, to ensure the right amount of Palladium pH Adjuster is added.
Before you use a pH meter, it is good practice to check it against a known pH using a buffer solution. This process is known as calibration. We will show you how to perform a single-point callibration of a pH meter at pH 7. Once calibrated, the pH meter can then be used to test the pH of our Palladium Tank Plating Solution. It is advisable to calibrate the pH meter on regular basis. This guide is therefor presented in two stages; the first demonstrating how to calibrate you meter the pH meter second showing how to take a pH reading of our Palladium Tank Plating Solution.
Other plating solutions may have different operating pH ranges and it's advisable that you calibrate your pH meter within these ranges. You can purchase buffers of varying pH ranges online from a number of outlets.
Please note that although we do not sell the pH meter shown and is only used as example as many pH meters function in a similar way.