Everything with a battery should have an off switch

Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by bombcar on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:02AM (#31313505)

Many of these “auto zero” which is why you have to do the scale dance - tap it with your foot to turn it on, wait for it to say zero, then step on.

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by maxerickson on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:09AM (#31314178)

Yeah, my explicit mention of kitchen scales and calipers was intentional, they both become much more useful if the user can choose to zero the readout at any time.

This is less true for a bathroom scale.

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by thfuran on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:21PM (#31319913)

Went not just stand on it while it tares and ignore the negative when you step off?

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by majewsky on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:01PM (#31320389)

All the digital bathroom scales that I've encountered refuse to display negative measurements.

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by thfuran on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:04PM (#31330279)

Well my kitchen scale does. Though I don't know many people who weigh less than five pounds.

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