- foodservice.
- food processing
- medical care
- chemical plants
- outdoor use
- veterinary use
- many industrial manufacturing
- shipping and receiving
- laboratories
- pharmacies
- livestock farming
In many of these applications, a scale is used as an integral part of their daily operations. Thus, they require a scale that is both highly accurate (such as a digital one), and one that is well built to hold up to the rigors of a work environment in which various kinds of liquids may come in contact with the surface of the device.
The following are additional features you should look for in a digital waterproof scale:
- Measurements in grams, pounds, pound/ounces or just ounces
- Stainless steel construction, including load sensors
- Easily portable
- Automatic zero tare function
- Full scale pushbutton operation for tare and zero
- Compensation for temperature and humidity
- Clear LCD display
- Battery or AC operation
- Automatic power-down after five minutes of inactivity, in order to lengthen battery life
- Welded housing of the display (to protect the sensitive part of the equipment)
For heavy-duty waterproof digital scales, look for stainless steel load sensors; they will provide much better durability, consistency, overload protection and rust/corrosion resistance than the less-expensive aluminum or nickel-plated load cells of lower-priced scales. You want to make sure that if you are weighing livestock for instance, the shock and pressure of a heifer stepping on to the device will not wear out it’s all important load sensors too soon. After all, an industrial quality waterproof scale is a hefty investment.
Even a lighter-duty scale (such as a foodservice scale) should include a rubber gasket around the enclosure for the digital display, for added water resistance. Some waterproof digital scales
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