Posted by Jon Lawes on 14/12/2021 06:45:54:
It sounds a bit trivial but its actually quite annoying; the M&W calipers I have don't have auto-wake, so I have to turn them on every time.
I'm 100% with this, I find it annoying beyond all reason that I put them down and turn my back for a few minutes by which time the screen is blank. If the "ON" button was a bit more enthusiastic it would help. It would also help if the delay before auto-turn off was a more sensible timeout, say 15 or 20 mins.
It can't be beyond the wit of man (i.e. Moore and Wright) to re-program their otherwise nice calipers to be a bit more user friendly.
In days of yore I had a pair of Mitutoyo ones which not only self turned off, but re-zeroed when you pressed the ON button, Now those really were annoying.
So I bought a pair of (even more) expensive Starrett ones, which turn on automatically (retaining their zero setting) when moved. Much improved, but they still don't like being dropped.