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A compact standalone digital microscope for field-based lake monitoring, with 100x to 1600x magnification. Built for homeowners, lake associations, non-profits, and local businesses that want to look at their lake's flora and fauna directly.
Standalone, so no laptop required at the water.
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There is a gap between noticing something and knowing what it is, and for most lake communities that gap is two weeks and a shipping label. A microscope closes it for the ordinary cases. Filamentous green algae and cyanobacteria look similar in a jar and completely different at 400x. Zooplankton communities shift in ways that tell you a great deal about a lake's condition. What people call "muck" is frequently identifiable on sight once magnified. The honest limits matter too. Visual identification is not species-level confirmation, it is not a cell count, and it is not a toxin measurement. What it does is tell you quickly whether something warrants a lab panel — and, just as often, that it does not. It is also the best teaching tool in the Toolbox. A board that has looked at its own lake water at 400x understands why the testing matters in a way no report achieves.
Lake Pulse sells measurement and monitoring — not treatment or remediation. What you buy here positions you to solve the problem, and to prove whether it worked.
Results from this product land on your lake's timeline in the Portal — next to everything else your lake has ever measured, instead of in an inbox.
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