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by ilyt 1108 days ago
My $10 +decade old one CR2032 powered one does that just fine.

Accurate enough for weight control (doesn't drift from day to day), no "stuck weight" problem mentioned either. Just need to wait 2 seconds for self calibration to finish

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If your scale doesn't give you a different weight from one day to the next, either you are a very unusual human that doesn't ever change weight somehow, the scale only gives two sig figs, or it's lying to you.

Humans are constantly changing weight, with every single breath you take.

I eat once a day and weight myself in the morning before eating or drinking anything, hence the consistency. If I weight myself in other parts of the day I get different results so it isn't just weight stuck at same level. So I can see the trend based on what I ate last few days pretty quickly.

I also tested on small weight and what my kitchen weight calls 3.016KG my bathroom weight calls 3.0KG so I'm pretty sure it's still reasonably accurate in absolute scale.

> I also tested on small weight

You need to weight youself and then weight yourself again with something of known weight in your hands.

Floor scales usually aren't good at a small weights, though I wouldn't be surprised if they are not bad at it nowadays.