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Proper Guide for your Weight Scale Calibration

By James Blee

| February 29th 2012 | Views:

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The present world use the digital scales more that the traditional old scales. It is because the readings taken and displayed by the digital scales are precise showing the exact weight of the item and easy to read. There are a number of varieties in which the weight scales are available. But on fine tuning the scales i.e. with proper scale calibration, the readings shown by it will be more accurate than normal. The steps to calibrate a machine are easily found in the user manual provided with the machine.

There are certain guidelines or verifications that can ensure that the scale will work properly. After you buy a scale, you should verify its proper functioning. Use a weight which is as light as nickel for a small-sized scale to check it. The average weight of nickel is around 5 grams. For a bigger scale like the ones used to measure our body weights, dumbbell should be used for scale calibration as it’s the precise weight mentioned in the user manuals.

The scale should be necessarily placed on a flat surface. Otherwise, you will never get an accurate result. The scale should be moved a bit and after that, it must come back to its zero reading..

After the initial scale calibration is done, you need to check for its verification by switching on the scale and it should read at zero at this instant. A body whose weight is previously determined should be put on it. If the previous and present reading matches, then your scale is working fine. Else, you have to calibrate it all over again. This should be continued till you’re sure that the scale calibration is done perfectly. It is really necessary to get the correct readings

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