A force-measuring device 1, particularly a balance, operates on the principle of electromagnetic force-compensation. An electric coil 53 is arranged to be movable in a magnet system 50. The coil has at least two windings W1, W2 and a current supply device PB having at least two partial current sources PB1, PB2, the current sources each assigned to a corresponding winding. A device CU controls and/or regulates the current supplied to the windings by the partial current sources in such a way that, dependent on a force L acting on the force-measuring device, a current I1, I2 is sent through each of the windings. The sum of the at least two electromagnetic forces which are thereby generated forms the compensation force, while, at the same time, the power dissipated by the coil always takes on a given predetermined value Ptg.