Taring off additional
weight (TARE)
Keep the measuring result
on the display (HOLD)
58 • seca 685
Use the
function to prevent an additional weight affecting the patient's weight
TARE
value.
This function is suitable for patients with limited mobility who cannot stand for the entire
weighing procedure. You can start by weighing a wheelchair, for example, and taring off
its unladen weight. The patient can then be weighed in a sitting position.
NOTICE!
Faulty measurement as a result of force shunt
If an additional weight is touching the surface on which the scale is standing, the
weight will not be measured correctly.
► Make sure that additional weights are only placed on the scale's weighing
platform.
1. Switch on the scale.
2. Place the wheelchair on the scale.
3. Hold down the
hold/tare
4. Wait until the display stops flashing and
ð The weight of the wheelchair is tared off.
5. Guide the patient onto the weighing platform and support them to sit in the wheel-
chair.
6. Ask the patient not to move.
ð The patient's weight is displayed.
7. Read off the measuring result.
8. To deactivate the
TARE
sage is no longer displayed or turn off the scale.
NOTE
The maximum weight which can be displayed is reduced by the weight of the
objects which have been tared.
When the
function is activated, the weight is still displayed after the load has been
Hold
removed from the scale. This enables you to attend to the patient before recording the
weight value.
✓
The scale has no load.
1. Switch on the scale.
2. Weigh the patient as described in the section entitled
tient, page 57.
3. Press the
hold/tare
4. Wait until the weight value has stopped flashing.
ð The
symbol (non-verifiable function) and the
ð The patient can leave the weighing platform and the weight value will continue to
be displayed.
5. To deactivate the function, press the
ð The
symbol and the
ð The weight value is no longer displayed.
NOTE
If the autohold function is activated, the weight value is automatically displayed
permanently until the scale switches itself off or is switched off, see
Autohold function
(AHOld), page 61.
arrow key until the
NET
appears instead.
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function, press the
hold/tare
arrow key briefly.
hold/tare
message are no longer displayed.
HOLD
message appears in the display.
arrow key until the
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Weighing a pa-
HOLD
message are displayed.
arrow key briefly.
Activating
mes-