Bonvoisin Lab Scale 1000gx0.01g High Precision Electronic Analytical Balance 0.01g Accuracy Laboratory Lab Precision Scale Digital Kitchen Balance Scale Jewelry Scale Scientific Scale (1000g, 0.01g)

I could have sworn I already reviewed the Bonvoisin Lab Scale 5000gx0.01g High Precision Electronic Analytical Balance 0.01g Accuracy? Anyway, it is Fantastic, almost unbelievable. It is incredibly sensitive and has a huge capacity. I am using it in the kitchen for precise measurements of food calories and nutrients. You can put an entire heavy cast iron skillet on the Bonvoisin, tare (zero) the scale with one button push, and then add your food and it will read out the amount of food to ±0.01 grams. When making a salad, I place the bowl on the scale, tare it, add lettuce and record the value, tare, add tomato, record, tare, add broccoli, etc. I later enter all values into a custom Excel spreadsheet and determine my exact calories, fat, carbs, protein, and other nutrients for the day. It was very revealing as I found most of my calories were coming from the Olive Oil dressing and the Red Wine I was drinking with the meal. I cut back on Olive Oil and reduced number of glasses of wine. This is a great, convenient scale with high capacity and high precision.

Great scale! Very accurate.

This balance is surprisingly good, especially for the price. I compared it to a similar balance that costs six times as much and it pretty well matches up. It has the basic features, external calibration (the provided weight even matches my Denver calibrator), tare, choice of units. The response is linear out to the maximum displayed weight. Two points I'll mention, there are four feet on the bottom so leveling without inducing a wobble requires a bit of care, and the output seems to have a shorter averaging time than I'm used to, but the noise is all in the last digit (and you ought not believe the last digit of any instrument anyway. A very good value!

Overall this seems like a nice quality, affordable scale with apparently good precision. I would buy it again ...probably. The reason I can't give five stars is because the "percentage" unit function is very NON-intuitive and isn't covered in the manual at all. This was particularly important for me because I bought this scale to accurately mix epoxy and also body filler for a car project and I was excited about using the percentage function extensively, in particular. Anyhow, after about two hours of trial and error I figured out the 'secret handshake' to make that function work. Here it is: 1) Click "units" to find the one with "g" AND "%." (not just "%".) 2) Press "cal" once, briefly. It won't beep or blink or do anything satisfying. 3) Place the first item on the scale. It'll read a weight. Leave the item on the scale. NOTE: DO NOT PRESS "tare" ON THIS SCREEN. 4) Press "units" a bunch of times until it gets to just "%" (no "g".) It'll say 100 meaning 100% of the item still on the tray. 5) Press "tare" now, only on this screen, only after the preceding steps. Add your second item. the number shown will be the percent of the new item compared to the first item. For body filler, I do step 1 and 2 and then plop a blob of filler on the (protected) tray then do steps 4 and 5 and add catalyst until I hit 2% which is the target for that particular body filler. Easy as that(!?!?) It's NOT intuitive but it works beautifully and gives very consistent mixes. Hope this helps someone. :-)

Using it every day, it is just perfect!!

When I received this scale, I contacted the company about issues with this scale, and they sent me a short e-mail that did not answer my question. So I replied and waited. They never did reply. Then it was too late to return it. It is not accurate. The weight is constantly changing and does not land and stay on a weight. It says it does ounces, kilograms etc. , but it only weighs in grams. I wanted ounces and grams. I am very disappointed and feel very ripped off.

Easy to operate and calibrate right out the box. very important is to know what voltage your region provides. the default plug included with the scale is fit for 110V . where i'm from its 240V. the suppliers contacted me immediately and shipped me the 240V plug FREE OF CHARGE ! just paid minimum fees for customs on arrival. they were very helpful and keen on getting me all set-up. As for the product itself, it has a user-friendly manual which will get you operating within a couple of minutes. just make sure you buy the item with the weights included for a standardized calibration.

Had issues with the first one but they were really good to reach out to me. Hopefully the new one will work better.