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mitey Active Contributor Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 10	Calibration - Zeroing and Taring 11/26/2012 9:02 AM
	Hi, can someone give me a distinction between zeroing and taring
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#1 Re: calibration 11/26/2012 9:09 AM
	Zeroing means just that. Setting the indicator at zero. What is tare weight? definition and meaning
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mitey Active Contributor Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 10	#2 In reply to #1 Re: calibration 11/27/2012 2:45 AM
	In some scales there are both tare and zero buttons, what happens when one press either, and which one is advisable to use on daily operation, not in calibrating. please advice
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#3 In reply to #2 Re: calibration 11/27/2012 3:36 AM
	See #1↑. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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czgut Power-User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Gdansk, Poland Posts: 100 Good Answers: 2	#4 In reply to #2 Re: calibration 11/28/2012 12:30 PM
	When You have nothing on the scale, press zero button. This allows the scale to make correction of errors (caused by temperature changes, humidity, supply voltage, dust on scale, drift of zero with time...) When You have empty container, box,..something to contain what You really want to weight, press tare button. Scale will write displayed weight (of container) to internal memory, and will subtract this value from results of next weighting. This allows to know netto weight of this, what You will put to container, without using calculator.
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mitey Active Contributor Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 10	#5 In reply to #4 Re: calibration 12/19/2012 5:22 AM
	Thank you, i get the difference. so zeroing is part of calibration.
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#6 In reply to #5 Re: calibration 05/14/2013 7:11 AM
	Not calibration. Just zero-ing (if there is such a word ). __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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