Hello, I have the Homedics Model SC-403 bathroom scale and may need your troubleshooting advice. Recently, it began showing erratic when we stand on the scale. It seems very sensitive and the weight varies plus or minus 10 pounds and settles down to a final weight value, but seems 10 pound low. Sometimes the weight is never displayed and it shows error. This has never performed like this before. It has always been accurate and stable. Can you help? [email protected]

Hello,
It's not a battery problem. The LCD panel of the DIGITAL SCALE has been wrong. Reasons: water, vapour, connector oxidation.

Wondering if the company is behind with their website postings. The USA website posts Instruction Manuals for their products but there is not one available for the SC-571.

You could check periodically here:

http://www.homedics.com/home/instruction-books/

Other option is to send an e-mail request to their customer service; contact is on same page.

You might also look for a similar model to the SC-571 and see if the available instructions are of assistance.

Open it again and make sure the battery is in the correct angle..... I have made this mistake from time to time

You have probably set your scale to kilogram and not pounds. There should be a button to set this underneath the scale or even a reset button to reset the scale to its original settings.

The fact of matter is those devices are inacurate for some reason more so on smaller females. But if you recently took a bath or drank water it will alter the results, they suggest taking it first thing before bath or eating in the morning at same time everyday to get a more acurate reading.

This may be getting personal but implants will also affect the reading making it totally useless for you to use. I have them and the electrical impedence devices read me much higher then what i am, a few minutes later will read me lower.

I would head down to your gym most of them will do a free body fat test with the calipers which is more acurate (as long as they know what they are doing).