Digital Pocket Scales
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Digital pocket scales are ideal for measuring minute, precise amounts of chemicals, ingredients, and substances. Great for chemists, jewelers, chefs, field investigators, law officers and hobbyists, the uses are wide-ranging and diverse. When you need to measure accurately on the go, a digital pocket scale is the ticket.
The digital pocket scale has gone the way of the cell phone… super tech or styled out these days – you can find them with camouflage prints, hot rod style flames, translucent blue, or hot baby doll pink for the ladies. Nowadays, you can measure within .01g accuracy and look like Lady Gaga or ZZ Top at the same time.
The most important decision when shopping for a digital scale is whether or not you plan to use it for personal or professional use. For merchants, shop owners and anyone engaged in commerce and selling by weight, the unit should be trade approved. You can easily differentiate trade approved digital scales by looking for the following identifiers: Trade Approved, Weights & Measures Approved or Class III Approved scale. Any of these certifications indicate that the unit conforms to industry standards and is accurate enough to be selling with.
The next most important factor in choosing a digital pocket scale is to assess the types of items and quantities that you plan to weigh. Figure out what the heaviest item you plan to weight is and how small the divisions need to be. Typically, digital scales weight in divisions of 3000. So, a 3000 gram scale would go in 1 gram increments and a 6000 gram scale would go up in 2 gram increments.
Blade pocket scales feature a retractable digital display that folds into the unit when not in use. They work much the same as a switchblade, for the gadget conscious consumer.
CD pocket scales look just like a CD – until you open the cover. Inside is a precision balanced digital scale, accurate to within .01 g. The CD pocket scales are available in a number of covers – or you can insert your own to fit your CD collection.
A few key features to look for when shopping:
Capacity/Accuracy
The capacity is the largest weight which the scale is capable of handling. Accuracy is the smallest increment of weight that the scale will read. A scale with a capacity/accuracy of 7g/.25g will weigh up to 7 grams with accuracy to within one quarter of a gram.
Protection
Because you’ll be carrying the scale with you, it’s important to buy one that’s designed with protection of the delicate mechanics in mind. Look for rigid covers that prevent anything from resting on the weighing surface.
Expansion Trays
One of the nicer features of some pocket scales is a cover that doubles as an expansion scale, making it easy to weigh things that are too large for the weighing surface. Expansion trays also mean that dust and residue doesn’t remain on the weighing surface itself – you just wipe out the expansion tray instead of scraping the surface.
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