Dear John, My Salter Model 323 has its display in grams only. There does not seem to be any way of changing this to early 18th Century units.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia On 2003-04-06 03.53, "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2003-04-05 > > Do these balances strictly display in grams or are the selectable? When you > open the package, is the selection pre-set for SI or FFU? Is Salter an > American company? Where are the balances made? > > Also, could you measure the amount of mass in large M&M bags to see if you > get consistent readings over 400 g? I think it is ridiculous that Mars > Candies insists on labelling the packages as 396.x g when they could legally > label them as 400 g, since I've found them to be always over 400 g so far. > > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, 2003-04-05 10:18 > Subject: [USMA:25432] kitchen scales > > >> My wife and I have been researching electronic kitchen scales, and I've >> found out some interesting things. >> >> The first one we bought (Salter 1002.jpg, $69 locally) has a cool-looking >> glass platform, four load-cell/strain gauge sensors, and a resolution of 2 >> g from 0 to 5000 g. It is also slow to respond, and has excess hysteresis, >> on the order of 4 g. I tested it with some calibration weights and it was >> reasonably accurate, not exceeding 5% error with any of my weights (5 g >> through 1 kg). >> >> However, for kitchen use it worked fine, until I dropped a full jar of >> peanut butter on it and busted one of the aluminum load cells (although > the >> glass platform survived). >> >> Then we bought another (Salter 2001.jpg, $36 on the web). It is not nearly >> as cool looking, but has a resolution of 1 g from 0 to 2000 g, and 2 g > from >> 2000 to 5000 g, is faster to respond, has very low hysteresis (< 1 g, >> perhaps a bit too low), and was never off by more than 1% with any of my >> calibration weights. I haven't been allowed to disassemble it (haven't >> broken it yet), but my guess is there are probably three strain bridge > load >> cells under the platform. >> >> The other interesting thing: average-size almonds weigh very close to 1 g >> each. I was measuring 30 g of them, then counted them: 29. I tried it five >> more times from a bag of Blue Diamond roasted almonds: 30,32,32,30,31. >> >> >> Jim Elwell, CAMS >> Electrical Engineer >> Industrial manufacturing manager >> Salt Lake City, Utah, USA >> www.qsicorp.com >> >
