How To Calibrate A Scale With Coins. Cylinder and leaf calibration weight kits include both cylinder weights and leaf weights to help calibrate weights and scales. Start off by switching on your digital scale.
This video shows you how to calibrate a set of digital scales without a weight by using 14 x 2p coins (united kingdom) or 20 x nickles (usa) to replace a 100g calibration weight. The mass should read 100.000 grams exactly. 2.2 hold down and key together.
Any digital scale will have a number of buttons, one of which is intended for calibrating it.
This will take about 30 seconds to 1 minute. For a 100 gram scale, you would need 20 nickels). You want to reset the scale so that it is at zero. It is advised to start with smaller weights first such as 5 or 10 grams.