I hate this scale, it says low battery and shuts off after just 3 months of sitting in the drawer. It infuriates me that there’s still a lot of energy in the battery, I can use that in remote controls with no issues
If there’s enough battery to say “low battery”, then there’s enough battery to show the measurements!
Buy an analog, non digital scale. That piece of junk is just e-waste.
That’s not really how it works. The components of the scale require a certain amount of current especially if it’s digital in nature. As a battery approaches being drained, it produces less current. Less current can often power an analog device to a lesser degree, like lighting up an indicator light or LCD or even the IR LED light on a remote, just very dimly. But the tolerance of the weighing components is probably much less than the tolerance of the LCD panel or LED bulb. So many devices use an LCD or indicator LED bulb to show that the device isn’t necessarily broken, it just needs new batteries.
If it’s sitting in a drawer and getting drained, then it’s probably not turned off properly or it may be the type that turns on automatically when it gets pressed down and inside the drawer it’s getting activated. Instead try taking the batteries out of any device that sits around for a long time without use. It will prevent accidental draining and also reduction the likelihood that the batteries will leak after a time. I usually pop the batteries part way out or put them in a small bag that I attach to the device with tape or a twist tie. Just make sure they aren’t touching anything metal and that the poles aren’t touching each other. Batteries will lose charge over time, but with alkaline batteries, that’s usually years, not months. Rechargeables generally take much less time, though.
I have to charge the battery EVERY TIME! There is a wheel on the top I have to spin else it won’t do ANYTHING.
Infuriating
I replaced mine with a usb cable. No batteries.
I have the same scale and bought a few rechargable ithium-Ion AAAs and they work line a charm having a constant voltage until empty.
Only downside is that you don’t get any warning when they are about to run.
(Something like that: https://www.mediamarkt.de/de/product/_verico-verico-li-ion-akku-loop-energy-aaa-mit-usb-c-buchse-2er-pack-lithium-ionen-akku-109861637.html )
Edit: nvm, just saw your comment about yours usung a coin cell it seems like there are some deviations between different models of the scale.
This is probably not what you wanna hear, but when the battery gets low, the current gets weaker. If the current gets too weak, the scale becomes more and more inaccurate. Like, wildly so. In other words, the alternative is to lie to you. Badly.
I’m bummed that when I had a Thinner bathroom scale, I could weigh myself before and after using the bathroom to see how much I expelled. It was consistent and really useful knowing its precision during keto months (lost up to 3lbs a week). Now I have a Taylor scale that will report the same weight over and over if it’s relatively awake and you change less than 5lbs. So, no thanks to scales that lie.
Agree. For clarity, the circuits that show the low-voltage status are much less hungry for current than the circuits that measure weight. So no, having enough battery to report low voltage does not imply that there is enough to make an accurate weight measurement.
Normal AA or AAA battery, or a CR<something> button? If it is a button cell, try wiping it with alcohol before you insert it. Many modern button cells have a coating that tastes horrible to prevent people (children) from taking them into the mouth. I’ve noticed that on some brands, this coating measurably increases the resistance of the cell, not only reducing the the power it can deliver, but als making it appear “emptier” than they are ofor the measuring circuits. Wiping off the coating with alcohol (90% isopropanol) expanded the cells’ life (in a kitchen scale to boot!) significantly.
It’s a cr2032 from Duracell with that coating, later I’m going to try that
I know this isn’t helping but your scale is saying “ok lol”
For decades scales worked just fine without any electricity. Maybe get one of those.
There’s also the option of electronic scales which are rechargeable via USB
Didn’t think you were going to get a bunch of nerds telling you exactly why it works this way 🙄
“Bruh just use the finger scale to weigh out your weed. 1 finger = 1.7g and 2 fingers = 3.5g”
I believe I have this exact same scale, and I also hate it. My main problem is that those capacitative buttons sometimes refuse to work, and it’s real nice when I’m trying to measure something in grams and it randomly gets stuck in pounds.
