Dificualty reading Bathroom Scales display.

Are there any talking scales available these days? Would they suffice?

Just checked Ebay and they are available. Here's one of them:

Plenty bluetoothable, but then you'd need a computer in range or smartphone.

We have a Soehnle bathroom scale, about 15+ years old. Digital, battery, kg or st.lbs. Stand on it; wait for reading to zero; get off; weight then displays for quite long enough to bend down and read it, or even pick the scales up to read it. I presume that there would normally be a minus sign in front of the weight, but they don't have such on the display, so it simply shows the weight. Discovered it would work that way by accident. Don't know if more recent Soehnle scales behave the same way though.

There are plenty of scales around with a wireless remote display

This one is on Amazon at 28.95

I bought an Oregon Scientific model a few years back, with the display on a stand like a travelling alarm clock. This works fine; but it seems is no longer.

Just google "scale wireless remote" for more choices.

michael adams

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I just bought some cheap boots scales and they do this as well.

slap the scales to turn em on, self zero, stand on, then get off and the display holds for a few seconds

Lidl had a bluetooth set of scales on offer a few weeks back. You need a smartphone to read them remotely. I bought them to weigh suitcases as the case obscures the dial if it is flat. About £30 IIRC.

You spent £30 on something to weigh suitcases??

Do you have a special room to do that in? And a man to do it for you?

Wow. Why not just plonk the cases on the scales, count to 5 to allow the reading to settle, then take them off so you can read the display?

En el artículo , Mick IOW escribió:

Binoculars are cheap.

Also sucking in your stomach will prevent it obscuring the display.

Random! Whilst true, I can't see how they could possibly help the OP solve his problem.

That's very unkind. I can well see your need to "" (at least the "d & r" part. Shame on you!

I expect Mick will find a suitable set of digital scales in Aldididdle if he cares to look for ones with suitably large displays (which is most of them, afaicr) and verifies whether or not they beep and hold the reading for long enough to allow him to step off and back in order to bend down and take a closer look at the reading.

This latter feature (beep and hold the reading) seems to be common to most models of digital bathroom scales (and for quite a few years now ime), so an 18 to 28 quid investment may well provide an effective solution to Mick's problem.

Last time I tried that, I spent the next 3 weeks with a pulled Muscle. It is money well spent.

Another solution is to weigh self then self plus bag. Does require the ability to do simple subtraction though :-)

Mick IOW scribbled

Point a camera phone at it - the scales, not your nob.

You still have to lift the cases on and off!

Nobody has mentioned that you can get scales with extra large displays that are much easier to see. I got mine from Argos.

Dave W scribbled

Or these

Take a picture with a phone on a selfie stick

In article , Chris Hogg writes

Ours are similar age but slightly more complicated. Stand on it to activate. Get off until it zeros Stand on it and weight is displayed Get off and display stays on for a few seconds then switches off.