Digital Height Gauge

Basic Facts And Characteristics Of A Digital Height Gauge

A digital height gauge is an extremely accurate measuring device which has been designed to measure either the difference in height between two points. Such a product can be used to measure a variety of things besides simple heights, including internal and external diameters just like digital callipers and center-line distances as well as step heights of course and these tools are extremely precise, up to 0.001 inches in fact.

The height gauges made by companies like Mitutoyo are made with very high quality, hardened stainless steel; they’re made of a solid cast iron base meant to ensure that your gage is stabile and quite rigid when measuring which features a beam that extends up which has a printed scale on it botch in imperial and metric formats. The actual electronic measuring slider is mounted on this beam and they usually feature several buttons that change what it shows on the readout. The slider will come with a scriber tip on one of the jaws and the whole thing slider and scriber can slide up and down along the scale and locked into place. If you need your dial height to be extremely precise then there is also a fine-tune thumb-wheel which can be used to make a final adjustment which you can lock into place as well with a second screw. Usually a digital gauge will also have a data output port through which the information can be sent to a computer for further processing or to be used with the aid of special software applications.

Whether you are dealing with a Wixey digital gauge or any other brand of height gauge there are a few steps that you should follow prior to measuring anything in order to make sure that the result you are getting is the most accurate one possible.

The first thing you have to do is to prep the working platform on which you will set up the gauge, make sure you give it a proper cleaning before placing the height gauge on it and then make sure that you dry the surface of the protective sticker of the gauge and fix the measuring jaw so that you can clean it thoroughly.

After that is done you can loosen the locking screw and move the slider up and down to check if the LCD display and all the buttons work correctly. The final thing that you will have to clean before making the measurement is the actual item or object that you will be measuring. Also before measuring remember to set the starting point of the measurement correctly.
After you’ve taken all the measurement data that you needed take off the jaws and clean and dry them with a clean cloth, or use some cleaning oil if you consider it to be necessary, and then store it in the fit case.

Those are some of the basics that you need to know about a digital height gauge, odds are that you know by now if this is indeed what you need for your measurement needs.

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