We have a typical Soehnle bathroom scale. It’s been getting on my nerves lately as it had given me some flukey, inconsistent readings. I like telemetry, so I decided that I’d upgrade. I looked around and found Tanita, a Japanese manufacturer that makes all sorts of digital scales that scan your body etc. In fact, when I had a comprehensive medical last year, they had one of these scales. So I shelled out $500 and bought one of their best consumer models on friday.
WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK!
Firstly, I can’t believe it was made in Japan. It had the design-taste and construction quality of something made in Wuhan, China, or perhaps North Korean, not Japan.
But more importantly, the scale (presumably the simplest measurement) was total garbage. I could get on get off get on get off get on get off and get different readings each time. Sorry, I spent $500 for a digital scale, not a mettler balance, so I am not interested in estimating true weight through multiple observations.
I figure “well, if you can’t even measure my weight repeatably (let alone accurately), why should I believe that any of the other fancy measurements you take, body fat, hydration, muscle mass, etc, are believable?” Fortunately I bought it at Takashimaya, so there was no problem returning it.
So I don’t know, maybe the only real way to get accurate weight is to get a physician-style mechanical scale? Ugh. That’s gross and big. But these digital scales all have been shit so far.
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However, mechanical scales are apt to have inaccuracies too…..depending on humidity and temperature…..expansion/contraction…..friction changes.
I think you have to weigh yourself while submerged in water and then dry to determine body fat measurements. HAHAHHA,,,,, that tank will fit nicely in your Hannibal Lecter Attic hideway!
You are correct, digital and spring scales are absolute junk. A doctors scale, large and ugly, is consistently accurate. $250 was mine and as I remember I put a bit of grease at every fulcrum point and linkage before I assembled it. Later I put some silicone sealant gobs where the pointer hits. Several times I have be questioned by the airlines how I got my luggage exactly 50#
If you want accurate readings that’s the way to go. If you weigh yourself too much it will make you crazy since it can see that glass of water you just drank.
Maybe a scale by OMRON? Their main business is industrial sensors and electrical components.
It’s a much bigger company.
Maybe stop worrying so much.