Topic: Measured weight oscillates up and down

Hi,
I have observed that the measured weight oscillates up and down.
After changing the battery I tested the system first without any weight and then with about 27 kg.
The scale measured the following data:


https://i.postimg.cc/TyTs6NMs/Screen-Shot-228-Bienenmonitor-Mozilla-Firefox.png

So my questions are:
Is there a problem with my system?
Is the possible solution to measure twice or three times and take the mean?

All tips are welcome.

Thank you

Michael

Re: Measured weight oscillates up and down

200-300g fluctuation is not a nominal performance, but not catastrophic enough to be explained by a big issue.
Batteries health doesn't explain the fluctuation.

What is the most likely is a small friction somewhere in the mechanical system. Of course by triggering 3 times the measurement and keep the median would work, but it's clearly sub-optimal, and will reduce significantly battery life.

I'll discuss with Juan what we can do, but I think about two things :
- A video to explain where to look after mechanical friction, some tips, and how to evaluate by hand the sensitivity.
- A software procedure to run x times the balance search, and quantify the dispersion. With that we would have a factual value, and give some reference value.

To make it short, you may have a small burr on the tips of the knives (which are laser cut inox, so blurr is unavoidable, but you can remove it during assembly), and you may have some misalignment during assembly, that make two parts touching while it shouldn't. Difficult to explain without a sketch.

Re: Measured weight oscillates up and down

Hi,

it is most likely mechanical problem created during assembly.
I have been fighting this issue too.
I have finally found the problem, I took me like a week to solve it out.
I had to reassembly the scale, I remember.

Robert

Re: Measured weight oscillates up and down

Thank you to both!
Looks like had a little bit of work :-)
Maybe the video of Pierre could help. Let's see.