The price of glass screen protectors on the market is very confusing, but when purchaser choose to buy glass screen guard, there is no way to judge the quality of the screen protectors with the eyes.
How does the factory control the quality of the glass screen protectors during the production process?
The more commonly used test methods include the falling ball test, water drop angle test, edge static pressure test, and so on.
Let’s talk about the falling ball test today.
What’s mean Falling Ball Test for screen protection
By a 64G steel ball dropped on the center of the tempered glass screen guard from the top of 40 cm-180cm, after 3 times, no broken. And different quality with different test requirements.
If the falling ball test has the same rank as the LOL, then will be as:
– Sliver Grade: 64G 40 cm
– Platinum Grade: 64G 90 cm
– Diamond Grade: 64G 120 cm
– Master Grade: 64G 150 cm
– Challenger Grade: 64G 180 cm
Why there are very very very cheaper glass screen protectors are selling in the market?
We got some samples of cheaper glass screen protectors from the market. After we tested, we found that the falling ball test can only reach 64G 30cm or even lower. (Let’s called Bronze grade )
In the production of glass screen protectors, tempering time is a very important process . During the tempering process, the length of time will directly affect the quality of products (Falling ball test results). There is 4 hours tempering time of standardized production, but the tempering time of this kind of very cheap glass screen protector may only be 1 hour or even less, this is why their falling ball test is so poor. Only save time and cost which can make the price cheaper.
If you want to be a professional purchaser of glass screen protectors, please ask your suppliers ”what’s the falling ball test standard of your products with the price?”
How to make a quality test by yourself without falling ball test equipment?
You can do a bending test (please wear gloves before doing the test like picture shows, in case hurt your hands with broken glass)
Good quality: After being broken, there will be a very beautiful cobweb pattern, and the fragments very small.
Poor quality: After being broken, there are much bigger fragment in the glass.
