The best digital scale

dezza · Sep 22, 2011

I have a Fox digital scale, but to be honest they soon run out of battery and go haywire, and I worry about their accuracy.

So what is the best digital scale around?

What would make it the best for me would be the following features.

1: Small and light, able to fit into your pocket without any problems.

2: Weigh from 0 to ca 40lbs in imperial and metric units.

3: Having a solar panel like a calculator or a modern watch, or like my Seiko watch will charge up with a kinetic system. Most important it must be batteryless. Batteries run out!

4: Extreme accuracy, to milligrams and fractions of an ounce.

Any ideas Peeps?

Simon K · Sep 22, 2011

Milligrams Ron?

What are you weighing?

:wh

And how much are you selling it for?

dezza · Sep 22, 2011

Lab scales will weigh to small parts of a milligram!

I'm after a record minnow if you want to know.

sam vimes · Sep 22, 2011

Nice specs but I've got a horrible feeling that nothing exists. If they did exist then I suspect that they'd cost more than anyone would be prepared to pay.

Ian Scarfe · Sep 22, 2011

This'll do most of your fishing,very reliable,and I'm still on the original battery after 5 years Salter Brecknell ElectroSamson Digital Balance - 25 kg / 55 lb With Luxury Pouch ,but I don't know how you'll weigh the minnows,it only measures to 10 gm.
Ian

keora · Sep 23, 2011

Ron, have a look at this thread from earlier this year. There seems to be mixed views about the accuracy of digital scales.

http://www.fishingmagic.com/forums/general-fishing/170158-digital-scales-fishing.html

chub_on_the_block · Sep 23, 2011

Recently, a friend caught a nice tench of 5Ib12oz at a lake (his first tench). Incredibly, the same fish (recognisable by unusual mouth damage and a distinctive area of scales) is shown on the club website having been caught just five days previously ...but at 7Ib 7oz!!

Having seen the fish at first hand 5Ib 12oz was about right.

Cant comment on accuracy of particular scales as i dont know what produced the heavier weight.

When i look back at old fish photos from years back i have a sneaking suspicion that many of my fish weighed in the 1980s on Little Samson scales were undercooked - looking bigger now than the weights i recorded at the time.

dezza · Sep 23, 2011

So that's it then, I'll be sticking to my Avons in future.

They are absolutely bang on.

barbelboi · Sep 23, 2011

Forget the digis - Can’t beat the Ruben Heaton Flyweight Mk 2 for all small fish under 40lb

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Jerry

S-Kippy · Sep 23, 2011

I agree. I rarely weigh fish now anyway but I'm perfectly happy with my Flyweights. More than accurate enough for me on the odd occasion they get called into play.

904_cannon · Sep 23, 2011

The best digital scales? The ones with the single digit indicator, dial spring balance

As Ive mentioned on other threads I used to service/repair digital scales (far more expensive than the fishing type) and they were always going out of spec, especially when subjected to constant movement - very similar to a live fish hanging from them.

mark brailsford 2 · Sep 24, 2011

I see korum have bought out a small digital scale, looks neat, but I have not seen any reports yet.

mark

Bob Hornegold · Sep 24, 2011

Ian Scarfe said:
This'll do most of your fishing,very reliable,and I'm still on the original battery after 5 years Salter Brecknell ElectroSamson Digital Balance - 25 kg / 55 lb With Luxury Pouch ,but I don't know how you'll weigh the minnows,it only measures to 10 gm.
Ian

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Have to concure with Ian on the above scale.

Very Accurate, long Battery Life.

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And if Weight is really important to you, check your Spring type scales againgst a given weight.

The Specimen Group I'm involved with asked it's members to check their spring scales, most of them found the Scales weighed LIGHT ?

One or two members found the Spring Scales weighed Heavy.

Bob

mike90 · Jul 4, 2014

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Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 4, 2014

I have my scales checked by weights and measures every couple of years, the reason is simple, i want to know they are correct.

I have the Flyweights, and the a set of 60lb x 1oz, both weigh bang on.

Digi scales ? never. I have tested a number, and found the same with them all, new battery fine, a lightly used battery, they weigh wrong, an old battery, miles out. But the same batteries in different scales and you get different readings from them all, Fox were the worst.

I also have a set of the Avons which weigh 1oz light, tested by weights and measures, their verdict, great spring scales, as they still weigh the same now as they did when first bought almost 30 years ago.

That says it all.

terry m · Jul 5, 2014

I have a set of Rapala 55lb x 1oz digitals. Lightweight, backlit, long battery life, reliable and accurate.

The one real disadvantage of digital scales in my experience is the propensity for the readout to jump about a bit. That can be completely overcome by using a weighing crook, especially on larger fish.

I have to confess that I still have my Avons for winter piking.

symonh2000 · Jul 6, 2014

I am a bit of a tackle tramp and have just bought a set of these.

40 KG Portable Digital Fishing Luggage Weighing Postal Parcel Hanging LCD Scale | eBay

I have calibrated them against some items of known weight and they are pretty much spot on.

They are cheap, small enough to fit into my tackle bag and I won't loose any sleep if they get damaged or stop working.

terry m · Jul 6, 2014

If they are accurate then that is a real bargain.

symonh2000 · Jul 6, 2014

Well they were accrate weighing a few bags of sugar and rice up to a total of about 10Kg.

I didn't have any more stuff to hang onto them which I knew the weight of.

nicepix · Jul 6, 2014

I've largely stopped taking mine every time.

I have a Rapala electronic scale and the problem with it is that it has one of those new-fangled on / off switches that allows a small current to pass through it all the time resulting in a discharged battery every few months. I tried removing the battery but it is too much of a faff to put it back in when a fish is on the bank so now I generally don't bother.

If I get another set it will be a spring balance.

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