Water Quality Testing Equipment

Are you looking to buy water quality testing equipment? Aquaread manufactures a wide range of water quality and level sensors to help you with your water analysis.

Water quality testing equipment plays a crucial role in assessing the safety and suitability of water, helping you to analyse water with user-friendly, portable equipment. Regularly monitoring and maintaining water quality ensures safer water, meeting both environmental and compliant water standards.

Explore our range of water quality testing equipment for all types of water environment below. And, if you need help setting up your tools, be sure to check out our water testing equipment how-to videos.

Pro Series

PRO SERIES

The Next Generation of
Multiparameter Water Quality
Monitoring Instruments
AP-PRO & AS-PRO

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The Aquaplus, Aquaread's portable, GPS Optical Dissolved Oxygen/Electrical Conductivity water quality probe.

AquaPlus

Portable, GPS AquaPlus Optical DO/EC system

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The AP-Lite, Aquaread's single parameter Aquaprobe alongside its durable white box.

AP-LITE

Single parameter Aquaprobe, for use with any of our sensors.

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The AP-700 & AP-800, basic water monitoring packages that come in a sturdy box.

AP-700 & AP-800

Basic Water Monitoring Packages

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A close-up of the AP-2000, Aquaread's advanced portable multi-parameter water testing probe, alongside its sturdy black box.

AP-2000

Advanced portable multi-parameter Aquaprobe.

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A close-up of the AP-5000, Aquaread's advanced portable multi-parameter water testing probe, in front of its box.

AP-5000

Advanced portable multi-parameter Aquaprobe.

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A close-up of the AP-6000, a portable multi-parameter water quality meter from Aquaread, in front of its durable box.

AP-6000

Advanced portable multi-parameter Aquaprobe.

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A close-up of the AP-7000, Aquaread's long-term deployment multi-parameter water quality probe with multiple prongs.

AP-7000

Long-term deployment multi-parameter Aquaprobe.

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A person points the Aquasonde-2000 into a shallow stream to test the water quality.

Aquasonde-2000

The Aquasonde-2000 has 2 spare ports. They can house either 1x ISE sensor and 1x Optical sensor. Or it can house 2x ISE sensor.

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A person holds the Aquasonde-5000, a sleek black water testing meter.

Aquasonde-5000

The Aquasonde-5000 has 4 spare ports. They can house any combination of ISE and Optical sensors.

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The Aquasonde-6000 lying on a white surface with its casing off, showing the probe elements.

Aquasonde-6000

The Aquasonde-6000 has 4 spare ports. They can house any combination of ISE and Optical sensors.

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The Aquasonde-7000 and three of its spare ports arranged on the grass.

Aquasonde-7000

The Aquasonde-7000 has 6 spare ports. They can house any combination of ISE and Optical sensors.

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Aquaread's handheld GPS Aquameter pictured in front of two maps showing data locations.

GPS Aquameter

Handheld device with built in GPS data tagging

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A close-up of the Aqualogger, a black cylindrical device with a cable for use as a water quality logging device

Aqualogger

Unmanned logging devices for medium term deployment

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A simple, black box for use as a data converter with Aquaread's water testing equipment.

BlackBox

SDI-12 or Modbus RS485 data converter

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Water Quality Specifications

Standard Parameters

Dissolved Oxygen Range 0 – 500.0% / 0 – 50.00 mg/L
Resolution 0.1% / 0.01mg/L
Accuracy 0 – 200%: ± 1% of reading. 200% – 500%: ± 10%
Conductivity (EC) Range 0 – 200 mS/cm (0 – 200,000 µS/cm)
Resolution 3 Auto-range scales: 0 – 9999 µS/cm, 10.00 – 99.99 mS/cm, 100.0 – 200.0mS/cm
Accuracy ± 1% of reading
TDS* Range 0 – 100,000 mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0 – 9999mg/L, 10.00 – 100.00g/L
Accuracy ± 1% of reading
Resistivity* Range 5 Ωcm – 1 MΩcm
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 5 – 9999 Ωcm, 10.0 – 1000.0 KΩcm
Accuracy ± 1% of reading
Salinity* Range 0 – 70 PSU / 0 – 70.00 ppt (g/Kg)
Resolution 0.01 PSU / 0.01 ppt
Accuracy ± 1% of reading
Seawater Specific Gravity* Range 0 – 50 st
Resolution 0.1 st
Accuracy ± 1.0 st
pH Range 0 – 14 pH / ± 625mV
Resolution 0.01 pH / ± 0.1mV
Accuracy ± 0.1 pH / ± 5mV
ORP Range ± 2000mV
Resolution 0.1mV
Accuracy ± 5mV
Temperature Range -5°C – +70°C
Resolution 0.01° C/F
Accuracy ± 0.5° C

Optional Parameters

Depth ** Range 0-60m (AP-2000 & AP-5000), 0 – 100m (AP-7000)
Resolution 0.01m
Accuracy ±0.5% FS (AP-2000 & AP-5000), ±0.2%FS (AP-7000)
**Option on the AP-2000. Comes as standard on the AP-5000 & AP-7000

Ion Specific Electrodes***

Ammonium Range 0 – 9,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 9,000 mg/L
Accuracy ± 10% of reading
Ammonia† Range 0 – 9,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 9,000 mg/L
Accuracy ± 10% of reading
Chloride Range 0 – 20,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 20,000 mg/L
Accuracy ± 10% of reading
Fluoride Range 0 – 1,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 999.9 mg/L
Accuracy ± 10% of reading
Nitrate Range 0 – 30,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 30,000 mg/L
Accuracy ± 10% of reading
Calcium Range 0 – 2,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 2,000 mg/L
Accuracy ± 10% of reading
† Ammonium electrode required. Readings calculated from Ammonium, pH and temperature electrode values.

Optical Electrodes***

Turbidity Range 0 – 3000 NTU
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales: 0.0 99.9 NTU, 100 – 3000 NTU
Accuracy ± 5% of reading
Chlorophyll Range 0 – 500 µg/L (ppb)
Resolution 0.01 µg/L
Repeatability ± 5% of reading
Phycocyanin (Freshwater Blue-Green Algae) Range 0 – 300,000 cells/mL
Resolution 1 cell/mL
Repeatability ± 10% of reading
Phycoerythrin (Marine Blue-Green Algae) Range 0 – 200,000 cells/mL
Resolution 1 cell/mL
Repeatability ± 10% of reading
Rhodamine WT Dye Range 0 – 500 µg/L (ppb)
Resolution 0.01 µg/L
Accuracy ± 5% of reading
Fluorescein Dye Range 0 – 500 µg/L (ppb)
Resolution 0.01 µg/L
Accuracy ± 5% of reading
Refined Oil Range 0 – 10,000 µg/L (ppb)
Resolution 0.1 µg/L
Repeatability ± 10% of reading
CDOM/FDOM Range 0 – 2,000mg/L (ppm)
Resolution 2 Auto-range scales:
0.00 – 99.99 mg/L, 100.0 – 2,000mg/L
Repeatability ± 10% of reading

***Note

In addition to the standard parameters supplied with the base Aquaprobe, the AP-2000 has 1 ISE port and 1 optical port, the AP-5000 has 4 ports that can take any combination of ISE or optical sensors and the AP-7000 has 6 ports that can also take any combination of ISE or optical sensors.

The accuracy figures quoted above represent the equipment’s capability at the calibration points at 25°C. These figures do not take into account errors introduced by variations in the accuracy of calibration solutions and errors beyond the control of the manufacturer that may be introduced by environmental conditions in the field.