American Weigh Signature Series Black AWS-100 Digital Pocket Scale, 100 by 0.01 G
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of American Weigh Signature Series Black AWS-100 Digital Pocket Scale, 100 by 0.01 G
Customer Review: Great deal and excellent accuracy for reloading
Summary: 5 Stars
I read the negative review regarding the accuracy not being good enough for reloading use. I use this scale and the 0.2 grain error is no problem. Let me explain how I use this and this method should be used with any scale. With something as serious as measuring gunpowder into cartridges, I never trust any scale so I verify the measurement in this way. Let's say I need 6 grains of powder. I set the powder measure up to throw a single 6 grain charge as measured with this scale. That could actually be 5.8 to 6.2 grains which is unacceptable. I then throw ten charges and measure that. I should read around 60 grains but now the error range is 59.8 to 60.2 or 5.98 to 6.02 per single charge. I make slight adjustments to the powder measure device until 10 charges is equal to 60 grains. I am now within .02 grains per charge which is highly acceptable. The scale has performed flawlessly for me and I use it exclusively instead of my RCBS analog scale. I have also made comparison measurements with this and the RCBS with no appreciable difference between the scales. When used properly, the limitations of this ( or any) scale can be improved simply by utilizing a different method. Overall, this is a great deal for the price.Customer Review: Okay for the price
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very consistent gram balance for small increments in home application. However, if you use a heavy scale pan this will rapidly lose its reliability beyond 25g. I use this mainly for measuring coffee and tea with +/- 0.02g certainty below 30g but stick to more expensive, reliable analytical scales for measuring reagents. I'd suggest to keep a calibration weight handy (I believe it is possible to buy this with a calibration weight included).
Another point that becomes a little irritating is this burns through batteries like crazy. Would be nice to have a plug-in option for this reason and I'm actually considering buying a larger centigram balance to make up for it.
On the positives side, you get a lot from this little guy for pretty darn cheap.
Very compact (size of first wave of smartphones and fits easily in pockets), reliable for the price, easy to clean, easily tared, provides multiple measures, can retain calibration despite being moved or shaken lightly (wouldn't trust jostling on any precision scale), is not damaged by light dripping of water, the lighted display is clear and easy to read either in light or dark, and locking cover is easy to open/close.
Customer Review: If you are buying silver coins, this is a MUST purchase FIRST!
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this scale(silver/gray version) because it seemed like a reasonable price.
I bought this for Silver coins purchases.
See, silver coins tend to wear with heavy circulation. So weighing junk silver coins before making and offer is a MUST. (EG: Silver dimes can lose over 0.1 grams due to circulation.)
A non-circulated silver dime should weigh 2.5 grams, a heavily circulated silver can easily only weigh in at 2.4grams & being 90% silver that leaves only 2.16grams of silver instead of 2.25grams and if you are buying 350 silver dimes that will short you 0.9 grams per silver dime.. translating to over 1+ troy ounces of silver for that purchase of those 350 heavily circulated dimes!
You can weigh 40 dimes at a time safely on this scale.
Best purchase I have made in a while. Easy to determine weight and you can carry it in a pocket.
Remember this is accurate at .01 grams not grains as some reviewers state!
Customer Review: Great scale
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased the scale for weighing loose tea. One serving of tea is 2.2 grams.
When I opened the package I first had a problem trying to open the lid. There's a little button to release the latch. The casing comes off as a bit cheap.
I turned the scale on and it didn't work. I looked in the battery compartment and although the batteries were inserted (two AAA's), there was plastic wrap around each of them. I unwrapped the batteries and tried again, and bingo, the scale lit up like a charm!
However, the underlying scale is awesome! It has a really nice LED readout. The scale works great. I used the tare to weigh a small bowl and put the tea in it. It pretty much weighted a serving of tea within 1/100th of a gram.
So the scale works really well. For the price, it's a great buy!
Customer Review: Great affordable scale!
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this yesterday with my Prime membership and received it in less than 24 hours! The scale was not 100% calibrated when I got it (reading 100.08 with a 100 gram weight). I did purchase the 100 gram calibration weight (which is the one you need to calibrate this scale). It took only seconds to get it calibrated and worked perfectly after that. For those who said the batteries were dead when you got it, you do need to remove the batteries and unwrap the plastic from around them before they will work. I am very satisfied with this little scale. I plan to use it for dosing out supplements that I bought in raw powder form to put into gel caps (also available on Amazon). I did take away one star because it claims to measure in .01 increments, but once you get to very low weights, it goes in .02 increments.