WEIGHMAX DIGITAL POCKET SCALE


WeighMax Digital Pocket Scale, retail $11.99
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 04-28-21




This product does not emit light of its own, so the standard review format will not be used and the product will not be assigned a rating. This website is mostly about light-emitting products, but occasionally, you'll see non-light emitting products on it too if it's something I use regularly and/or really like (this scale meets both of those criteria!). It *DOES* have a blue LED in it, so it's at least a bit germane to the theme of this website.

What we have here is a handy-dandy pocket-sized digital scale. It can measure weights up to 650 grams (0.65 kilograms) with a resolution of 0.10 grams.

Although it was intended to weigh such items as jewelry, small quantities of precious metals (e.g. gold, platinum, silver, rhodium, niobium, etc.) and gemstones, I've found it ultra-handy to weigh flashlights, portable lasers, drone accessories, etc. with on this website.

We've all seen that dreadful phrase, "Unknown/not equipped to weigh" on hundreds of web pages on this website; well, this will no longer be the case as I am now equipped to weigh such articles!!!

One thing I noted almost immediately after I turned it on is that the LCD screen is backlighted with a remarkably potent blue LED.


Size of product w/hand to show scale SIZE



Using your Digital Pocket Scale is actually quite easy.

1: Remove the protective transparent plastic cover from the top of the unit and then place the scale on a hard, flat surface such as a desktop, a countertop, a table, etc.
2: Turn the scale on using the pushbutton above the graphic that looks like a circle with a little vertical line coming out of its top; wait a second or so until the display indicates, "0.0".
3: Place the item to be weighed on the plastic weighing pan. The item's weight (in grams, ounces, troy ounces, or carat) can now be read from the display.

The pushbutton marked, "M" is used to select from the weight units shown directly above; so if (for example) you hate the Metric system, you can obtain weights measured in ounces.

This scale also has a tare function; meaning that you can weigh something in its packaging and then have the scale automatically remove the weight of the packaging materials. Tare weight is the weight of an empty container. By subtracting it from the gross weight (laden weight), the weight of the goods in its packaging materials may be determined. This scale does that for you automatically.

To use the tare function, place a small bowl or box on the scale's weighing platform, wait for the reading to stabilise (probably just a second or two tops), press the "T" button, wait a second or so until the display indicates, "0.00", and then place the items you want weighed in the bowl or box.
This allows you to weigh articles that would not otherwise fit on the weighing platform or items that would otherwise simply roll off (such as pearls, BBs, ball bearings, etc.)

When you are finished, turn the scale off by pressing the pushbutton above the graphic that looks like a circle with a little vertical line coming out of its top again.



To change the AAA cells in your spiffy new (or corroded old ) Digital Pocket Scale, turn it upside down, slide the battery door off, place it on the floor, and use your foot to gently push it under the Lazy Boy chair so that the carpet beetles, silverfish, and piss ants will think that it's something yummy for their insect tummies, attempt to eat it, find it like totally unpalatable dude, and simply squat over it and uranate on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead!!!
(I actually had a pet rat a number of years ago that squatted over & pissed on some nuts or something I had brought home for her from the foodbank, hahaha! )

Remove the two dead batteries from their compartments and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Install a pair of new AAA cells into the compartments, orienting them so that their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each chamber.

Place the battery door back on, and gently press slide it away from the scale's "business-end" until it stops, and there, you're done.
Aren't you glad that you didn't push that battery door under the Lazy Boy with all of those hungry, hungry insects that had to pee now?

You might also want to grab a can of Raid® or Black Flag™ and discharge a good quantity of it under that chait, as it's plain to see I forgot my hat...O NOOOO!!! There I go thinking about the thrash metal band AnthraX again!!! The part about the hat is from the song, "I'm the Man '91" from the album, "Attack of the Killer B's"...what I meant to say was that it's plain to see that you have a bug problem going on in your living room!



This is a small digital scale, not a flashlight meant to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a carport in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metaltrailmon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalsusanoomon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitties, my kitty or my sister's kitty cat piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the scale's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.



The LCD lit by the surprisingly potent blue LED.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the blue backlighting LED.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the blue backlighting LED; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 440nm and 480nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 462.108nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at scale2.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.





TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Happy Market in Fresno CA. USA on 04-26-21.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Small digital weighing scale
    LAMP TYPE: LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Three momentary pushbutton switches
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic & metal
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 2x AAA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND DIET DR. PEPPER-RESISTANT: For heaven sakes NO!
    SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡PAPÁ NOEL TOMANDO UNA FUGA POR LA CHIMENEA, NO!!!
    ACCESSORIES: 2x AAA cells
    SIZE: 109.60mm L x 51.30mm W x 16.90mm D
    WEIGHT: 650g (2.29 oz.) (incl. batteries)
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
    WARRANTY: 10 years

    PRODUCT RATING:

    <>Product is not intended to be used as a light emitter,
    so the conventional "star" rating will not be used.





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