I was just wondering how to calibrate electronic weighing scales ( seca and the like) in a hospital environment. We have 200 electroni weighing scales in our hospital which are mostly from Seca. We can not carry 10kgs - 150kgs of weights around the hospital to calibrate and / or measure accuracy and precision of these scales. OOPs..... it would be tedious. Is there any strain gauge dummy kind of measurement that we could simulate and measure the actual weight against the displayed value in all these electronic weighing scales? I know Wellch Allyn temperature monitors have 3 different temperature probes and / or calibrators to measure, calibarate and validate at 3 different temperatures. Similar to this do we have dummy load for electronic patient weighing scales.
Electronic balances in the laboratory are easier to calibrate as weights are smaller between 1gm -5000gms but not for patient weighing scales.
Sen
