{"id":6136,"date":"2012-02-29T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:39:42","slug":"super-sensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/super-sensitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Super sensitive digital scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader in <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/ask\/questions\/1094\/whats-the-best-digital-scale-that-measures-to-001g-precision\">Ask Cool Tools<\/a> was looking for a cheap digital scale that could weigh items to a precision of 0.01 gram. Most kitchen scales run on a precision a magnitude lower at 0.1 gram. You&#8217;ll need a wind shield for scales this sensitive because air currents will disrupt the reading at this level. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; KK<\/p>\n<p>Digital 0.01-gram resolution scales are plentiful and very inexpensive (&lt; $20) on eBay and other online retailers. Most of them have a small, flat stainless steel pan, and tare for a container, making them convenient for use with small quantities of food.<\/p>\n<p>I used one from eBay identical to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Weigh-Scale-Scalemate-Digital\/dp\/B0012TEQMG\/ref=nosim\/?tag=cooltools-20\">unit<\/a> and was satisfied with the performance. Note that I was using it for balancing motorcycle pistons, a less demanding task than some others.<\/p>\n<p>Note that you can also obtain scale weight sets for calibration.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that general-use precision weighing of small, light-weight objects is a problem solved by any one of these small,inexpensive digital scales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; RCP<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/ref=dp_image_0.jpeg\" alt=\"Ref=dp image 0\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0012TEQMG\/?tag=cooltools-20\">American Weigh Scale Scalemate Sm-501 Digital Pocket Scale<\/a>, Silver, 500 X 0.01 G<br \/>\n$25 from Amazon<\/p>\n<p>Commenter Stefan Murphy  notes that the above item has less than 2.5-star reviews on Amazon. He found a better option with all 5-star reviews, that is also 2\/3 the price. However the max weight is only 100 grams, instead of 500. He says, &#8221; A little poking around, and based on reviews the below looks to be much better.  I&#8217;m in the market for a product like this and will be purchasing the below.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B003O5K3JQ\/?tag=cooltools-20\">American Weigh Scale Ac-100 Digital Pocket Gram Scale<\/a>, Black, 100 G X 0.01 G, $11<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/ref=dp_image_0-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Ref=dp image 0 1\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader in Ask Cool Tools was looking for a cheap digital scale that could weigh items to a precision &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[275,49],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28185,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/28185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}