Will Bottled Water Be Okay To Calibrate A Refractometer?

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idlefingers

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I'm currently buying RO water from my lfs until I buy my own RO unit. I tasted some from one of the 8 containers I bought home to fill the tank with and could taste some salt in it already (I guess the container had been used to mix water with salt before) so I don't trust it to calibrate my refractometer with.

So, will bottled water be sufficiently pure to use until I get my own RO unit and can be sure that the fluid I use to calibrate it has zero salt in?
 
Calibrating to 0 with pure RO isnt always the best idea, as it gets less accurate the further away the level is from the realistic levels you should be testng, better to calibrate it to 1.023 or 1.025, you could go to a LFS, get them to give you a sample of water that they know is at a certain SG and calibrate it to that though.

Andy
 
I guess I'll have to make a trip to the lfs this weekend then! Cheers for the help everyone.
 

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