Re: bathroom scale hysteresis

"Andre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Our bathroom scale has exactly the same problem - the same reading is
repeated when you weigh yourself a number of times.

If the first reading were, say 160.3, further readings would be either
160.3 exactly, or something outside the range of 160.3 plus/minus 1.

These results, I believe, is a result of clever firmware and not
mechanical or sensor characteristics.

About ten lines of code in C or C++; not at all hard to add.

-JS2

"JS2" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Andre" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Our bathroom scale has exactly the same problem - the same reading is
repeated when you weigh yourself a number of times.

If the first reading were, say 160.3, further readings would be either
160.3 exactly, or something outside the range of 160.3 plus/minus 1.

These results, I believe, is a result of clever firmware and not
mechanical or sensor characteristics.

About ten lines of code in C or C++; not at all hard to add.

-JS2

I have a hard time believing that they would do that. Why would they go to
the trouble of "lying" to users of their product?

If I noticed my scale doing that, I would not be happy. Fortunately, my
4-year old Tanita does not seem affected by this problem (I've tested it a
number of different ways, and never once noticed the problem described by
the OP).

Perhaps it's limited only to low-end scales.

Oddly enough, nobody complaining about this "problem" has mentioned brand
names either...

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