Needed a scale to weigh larger items & decided to give this one a try. After 6 months of use, it seems to be holding up well. Several things that I like are Scale can be powered 4 AA batteries or the included AC adapter A large LCD screen that displays the weight in real-time. It has an extra-long cord that allows the screen to be mounted on a wall while the scale sets on the floor. My only complaint would be that the display looks & feels a little cheaply made. I may be being too picky but it just doesn't seem as nice as the rest of the unit. I still believe you will be happy with it but felt it was worth a mention. Read more
After it arrived late, I was way behind. But now happy it had arrived. Well, I should say I "was" happy. Using the supplied cord, not batteries, I powered it up. Since I am transferring a lot of cargo and every pound counts, I decided to grab a few items and make sure it worked. Nope. On 10lbs it was off over a pound. 20lbs would read 19.6 (ok, that wasn't bad, but then 30lbs was way off again. I tried several item, and zero'd it out just to be sure. Read the directions for calibration. Could not get it to even go into the calibration mode. This would be bad directions. In them it states to hold the mode button down until 000000 comes up. I held it for over a minute at one point as I was getting desperate. I managed to figure out holding both power AND mode will put it into calibration mode. Figured I was good. Its annoying. Because I don't have 1 item that is EXACTLY 5 or 10kg, I took items that add up to that weight. However, when you place them on, as you get close, it just says 'GOOD' and resets. It does not allow enough time to do it fast enough. So with the help of the wife, we were able to place the items on at the exact same time. So we should be good...right? Nope. Now a can of corn weighs 21.4 pounds. I tried several times to reset, zero out, and recalibrate, and everything is way off. After 2 hours with playing with weights and other items to make sure everything was exact, I'm done. It should be noted that I was putting on items that I knew the EXACT weight of (weighed on a friends truck scale in an active warehouse) Read more
I purchased this to get the tongue weight on our travel trailer each time we are about to take a trip. So we're usually looking at getting weights in the 400lb - 500lb range. It seems to get the weight quickly and not fluctuate. I don't have any way of assessing the accuracy in that range, but when I weigh myself and compare it to a bathroom scale it is consistent. The unit seems pretty well built and we've had no problems with it so far. Read more
