When it works it is quite clever, certainly sees through the mesh bag. However, although one of the scales in my local store weighed correctly this week, it did not recognise the goods. There is no longer any ability to make a manual choice. The "Help" button simply tells you how it _should_ work. :-(
Fortunately an alternative set of scales worked OK.
Chris
Hmmm... I have some old bags-for-life from Morrisons with pictures of pears and from Asda with pictures of lemons. I wonder if they would break the system?
Nick
Good point. I have a thermal imaging camera, and black bin-liners are see-through.
Only one way to find out...
Chris
Sainsburys might not be able to accommodate you, since an over-night software update has uggbered their systems.
Does 'uggbered' mean that they now wear big woolly boots?
They certainly seem to around the chilled and frozen section of the warehouse.
Bit odd, isn't it that both Sainos and Tesco insist that their "glitch" was not a hack but the result of a software update. Who'd have thought that two rivals like them would have done the same update with the same consequences on the same weeked, eh?
Nick
Maybe they use the same software. Or maybe not.........
Conspiracy theorist followers that way >>>>>>
Nah! You _want_ us to go thataway, but you're probably a part of the conspiracy - so we're all going to head _this_ way.
I feel that the modules used are the same and as per usual, nobody had done the tests to prove the system worked. Incidentally, are modern scales independent of gravity? Somebody told me that there are places around this planet where gravity actually varies due to the density of the underlying material.
It would seem to me to not be a trivial matter to create a set of scales that worked in space. It would need to measure mass via inertia. Brian
A spring balance is dependent on gravity. A balance balance (i.e. where the weight of a sample is compared to calibrated weights) is not, but needs gravity to operate. A real balance needs human intervention (or some complex electromechanical system) and will therefore not be suitable for commercial purposes, so yes, they will all be affected by local gravity. But not much.
E. E. (Doc) Smith had his asteroid miners checking the density of rock core samples using an inertial device.
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