PoLLux GEM20 High Precision Portable Milligram Digital Pocket Scale 20 x 0.001g

I thought the price was a little high at first, but after buying a cheaper one for a back up, I realized it was worth every penny in time and money. The cheaper one took me 4 times as long to use because the numbers kept going up and down and in the end I worried that I may not have gotten an accurate number after all. My cat takes seizure meds 2 x's a day and I measure out his meds one week at a time. I found myself re-weighing his meds before giving them to him because I just didn't trust the cheaper scale. It also wouldn't weigh the amount I needed (57g - 58g) so I had to weigh the empty capsule with the medication to get it to register. I bought this same scale 8 or 9 years ago and it still works, but I broke the cover off. I bought this one for a back up, but ended up using it along side my old one. The accuracy is incredible! This scale is sold under a different name then my first one and the bottom of this is black instead of silver, but I'm sure it's the same scale. I tried so many before I bought my first one 8 years ago, so I know for a fact, this is a great deal if you want to save time and have piece of mind. It's worth the extra $10-$11 or so dollars in my opinion. Plus, this one came with a cover to keep it in. P.S. my first one was stamped on the cover with: Gemini-20 and had AWS in the center with a white circle around it. Just in case you wanted to look for it.

Works as intended

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Really nice little scale. Only gripe is the center point style is a little tricky to work with but has proved accurate over time

Perfect if you want to measure things within 5 mg or so. Highly accurate. At least this is my experience with the scale in measuring "powder". If you need to measure "Medicine" within (1mg) I do NOT recommend this product b/c of the 5mg drift that i've encountered. But if you need to measure within 5mg say like a 5mg dose or 10 mg dose or 15mg dose or 20mg dose, etc., then i found it to be highly accurate. TIP: You can get within 2-3mg accuracy above 100mg - just "tare" at 100mg then add 2 to 3 mg and scale should read [ 0.002 or 0.003 g ].

I was disappointed with this scale. I need it to weigh gold and need accuracy each and every time. After calibrating it I got a different reading each time! I gave it a generous 3 stars instead of 1 star because I’m not sure if the lack of accuracy was due to the fault from bad manufacturing of it or from Amazon shipping it loose in a box along with several other items that weighed several pounds! (the scale WAS in its own protective box but come on Amazon, how about some protective padding in the box!) I didn’t want to waste my time getting a replacement so I went with a more costly, better quality one. Oh one other thing with this scale, the flimsy plastic bezel was partially lifted up exposing the inside of the scale which made me further question the quality.

This scale seems to work as described. I am personally happy with this scale and for the price, it was worth trying. To my delight I found that the scale is both easy to use and takes the worry out of accomplishing exact measurements when weighing out supplements. With all that being said the instructions make more sense for calibration if you watch a YouTube video about calibration of this Scale. Once you’ve accomplished calibration the first time, you’ll never forget how to do it. With this in mind I would buy with confidence.

I bought this scale to weigh pellets with. It is totally useless for this purpose. I can place a pellet on it and let it settle on a weight then let it set some more and it will keep gradually show a heavier weight. I also tried taring it each time and still got different weights with same pellet. Sometimes by as much as 1 grain difference for same pellet even with taring it each time I placed same pellet on it. I am very dissatisfied with this product but it would cost too much to send it back so I will have to keep it and maybe make a video using it for a target. Maybe I just got the one bad on in a thousand. I am looking for a better one, any suggestions?

Ok, where to start. I opened the box and it was missing some of the pieces that were supposed to be in there. I calibrated the 10g weight and while the 10g weight was sitting the scale began going down. It went all the way down to 9.750. I took the weight off and with nothing on it it read -0.21. It slowly moved up to zero, but would do the same thing whenever any weight was put onto it. Had to send it back. Idk if this has happened to many others, or if it was just a bad scale, but it's quite unfortunate as this one has great reviews.