Digital Scale - Weights and Measures

[Tradewinds]

I am looking for recommendations for a decent digital scale, which will be used to measure specific quantities of various ingredients to be added to my tank.

A digital kitchen scale works for many ingredients, but I am looking for a scale that would also be able to handle larger batches of up to 20 lbs.

It would be nice if the recommended scale had the capability to display weight in both pounds and kilograms.

 

[disc1]

There's a tradeoff in price between range and precision. You can get a scale pretty cheap that will give you 0.01grams resolution but it will be limited to a few hundred grams. You can get a scale pretty cheap that will do 20kilos, but might only give 10gram resolution. If you want both it will get expensive.

The scale I use at home for aquarium purposes came from one of those little stores with all the smoking accessories. I'll leave you to figure out why they have them, but you can generally get 500g by 0.1 or 0.01g resolution for 20 or 30 dollars.

 

[Tradewinds]

Thanks David. Do you happen to have the brand and model number of the scale you use?

 

[RegalAngel]

FWIW.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AWS-Gemini-...sh=item2ec420500a&quantity=1&autorefresh=true

 

[disc1]

Thanks David. Do you happen to have the brand and model number of the scale you use?

I don't and it will be a while before I am home to look.

I've always figured the guys going into those type of places and buying from those type of places were the kind of people that get real ticky about exact weights if you know what I mean. So I've always figured that anything that was good enough for what they're doing was going to be good enough to dose my fish tank with. Or weigh out ingredients for a beer recipe. Or whatever. I've bought a few different scales from those kind of places and they've all worked good enough for me. Although I do try to make sure nobody sees me going in there.

 

[disc1]

The other thing to look for would be used lab equipment. You can find stuff on ebay all the time. Just be careful. Just because a balance is old doesn't mean anything is wrong with it. And just because it is like new doesn't mean it is still in good shape.

Whatever you get, if measurement is critical then calibrate it. Some of the lab grade scales will even have self calibration using built in weights.

 

[Tradewinds]

FWIW.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AWS-Gemini-...sh=item2ec420500a&quantity=1&autorefresh=true

Thanks for the lead, I think this scale may be a bit smaller than what I want to purchase, as it's capacity is only 20g.

I don't and it will be a while before I am home to look.

I've always figured the guys going into those type of places and buying from those type of places were the kind of people that get real ticky about exact weights if you know what I mean. So I've always figured that anything that was good enough for what they're doing was going to be good enough to dose my fish tank with. Or weigh out ingredients for a beer recipe. Or whatever. I've bought a few different scales from those kind of places and they've all worked good enough for me. Although I do try to make sure nobody sees me going in there.

This gave me a chuckle, as I had the same thought.

The other thing to look for would be used lab equipment. You can find stuff on ebay all the time. Just be careful. Just because a balance is old doesn't mean anything is wrong with it. And just because it is like new doesn't mean it is still in good shape.

Whatever you get, if measurement is critical then calibrate it. Some of the lab grade scales will even have self calibration using built in weights.

Great advise I will consider it while shopping for and using the scale.