Digital Scales - the art of weighing

Animal scales are mostly platform scales which are used to weigh small animals like cats, turtles, rabbits, big fish, chickens and pigeons. Some of these scales are equipped with RS232 interface, which allows the communication between scale and computer. This can be useful for animal shelters, if storing the massive amount of weighing data is too much to do it manually. These animal scales are made of stainless steel, some of them are protected against dust and splashing water, which is indicated by the protection class IP 54.

Most laboratory balances are made of stainless steel, which is a robust and hygienic material. The most important attribute that they have is their accuracy and resolution. In modern laboratory balances all necessary features, such as piece counting, formulation and tare function are available. These scales can be additionally operated with a set of batteries, which makes them independent from an external power supply. Of course the possibility of connecting them to a normal power supply is integrated, too.

Talking bathroom scales are balances for visually handicapped or old, partially sighted persons, which put the detected weight in form of a robotic voice out of an integrated speaker. These machines can greatly simplify the daily operation for a handicapped person. Some of them have a function to change the language to german, french and other languages.

Medical scales are made for various applications in nursing and patient care, such as nursing in hospital or home nursing. In addition the range of medicine scales contains baby scales, bathroom scales, scales with leaning aid, obesity scales, bed scales, lifter scales and wheelchair scales.

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To be pocket size is not a natural attribute of a scale. But when you think about what is being weighted nowadays, you get the idea. From lightweight gemstones to heavy machinery - scales are able to detect the weight of everything within the bounds of possibility.