Use the Right Tool
Various digital scales support many different weighing applications in households, businesses, and industries. Experienced users want to choose the right one to meet their weighing requirements. For instance, a tabletop scale with medium capacity and fine graduation in grams is suitable for office use. A higher capacity scale with a larger platform is useful for warehouse associates to weigh packages in different sizes.
Whatever the applications, using appropriate devices to measure weight is essential to operational productivity. To make informed decisions, buyers should review their daily weighing applications to understand the requirements. Ask some general guideline questions such as: What are the lightest weight and the heaviest weight usually encountered? How about the required weighing graduations? Which units of measure are needed? What is the general size of items? Is “certified-for-trade” verification required? Where to use the scale? What is the application environment and surroundings? What is the budget for a new scale purchase?
Collect the answers to the above guideline questions and take other relevant factors into considerations. The buyers will step through the scale selection process and narrow the options to meet the requirements of their weighing tasks.
Postal Scales
Practical medium-capacity digital scales. Lower minimum weight requirement and a relatively small division, as known as readability or graduation. Typical postal scales have 30 to 50 kg max capacity, 1 to 2 g division, a small footprint, and are easy to set up on a tabletop. They support faster routine weighing tasks in mail rooms, offices, packing stations, and shipping departments. For example, weigh letter mails, documents, courier envelopes, and small-size packages to determine their postage for delivery. Some models have extra convenience features such as simple piece counting and price calculation.
P30W
Capacity: 50 kg (110 lb)
Division: 1 g / 0.1 oz
Units: kg, g, kg:g, lb, oz, lb:oz
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P50CM
Capacity: 50 kg (110 lb)
Division: 1 g / 0.1 oz
Units: kg, g, kg:g, lb, oz, lb:oz
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PPC30W
Capacity: 30 kg (66 lb)
Division: 0.001 kg / 0.01 lb
Units: kg, lb
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Shipping Scales
Heavy-duty digital scales come with larger capacity but higher minimum weight requirement and a coarse division, also known as readability or graduation. Typical shipping scales have 100 to 300 kg max capacity and 0.05 to 0.1 kg division. Medium to large platter sizes can support larger boxes and parcels in a warehouse and shipping / receiving department to verify weights, postage, and shipping costs. Usually, they come with external indicators for easy observation of weight readout when measuring oversized and bulky items. Some models have optional data ports to communicate with external computers and to minimize manual data input errors.
S200W
Capacity: 200 kg (440 lb)
Division: 0.05 kg / 0.1 lb
Units: kg, lb, lb:oz
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S300
Capacity: 300 kg (660 lb)
Division: 0.1 kg / 0.1 lb
Units: kg, lb, lb:oz
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Lab Balances and Scales
They are precise, sensitive, and delicate digital weighing instruments with relatively small capacity, low minimum weight requirement, and finer division, also known as readability or graduation. Typical lab balances and scales have 100 to 2000 g max capacity and 0.01 to 0.001 g division. Most models usually fit with a protective windshield against external environmental influences to improve general weighing performance. They support specialty weighing applications such as standard sample preparation, formulation, quality control, and testing in labs and manufacturing environments.
L600
Capacity: 600 g
Division: 0.01 g
Units: g, lb, oz
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