Grow Mediums Help! Advice on pH/EC meter pleeeease

[SmokyD]

Greetings hydro enthusiasts, I live in the Netherlands and I am looking for an all-in-one pH/EC/temperature meter for real time monitoring of my grow.

I've had a lot of these break on me and I'm getting pretty sick of it. I don't want to spend hundreds but I would like one that will at least hold out for more than a year. I've checked out Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk but there are not so many customer reviews and there appears to be a lot of crap out there. The meters in my local grow shops are really expensive.

Something like this would be ideal: Milwaukee Messgeraet

But I've had bad experiences with Milwaukee. Even my growshop does not stock their products any more.

Any recommendations? Any advice very much appreciated! PS it's kind of urgent I have no EC meter right now :-S

 

[molegrower]

Anything from blue lab.. unfortunately they are expensive.. no way around that.. the results using them. . Priceless.. hope you get it figured out

 

[SmokyD]

thanks man some other guys recommended bluelab too. they are pricey... how often do you have to change the probes? is that process expensive?

 

[molegrower]

I haven't had to yet.. if you check out my dwc thread you will see the one I have for EC/PPMS.. it's a stick.. and didn't.need calibration.. was 140 US dollars blue labs one.. my.ph tester is an eco something.. Lol.. that was 50.00 bucks.. that had to be calibrated once a month.. at least that's when I do it..

 

[Muddy]

Hanna also makes very good ones. I've been using their Combo for about 3 years and have only had to replace the probe once and that was my fault for not taking proper care of it. The Combo does pH, TDS and PPM, but that also make models that do EC as well. Paid $130 US for it.

 

[SmokyD]

guys, you are awesome thank you. Looks like it might have to be the Bluelab for €302 as I can't find a Hanna meter anywhere anyway. Sure it's worth the investment, but it always hurts to part with 300 bucks cheers