Salter 9141 WH3R Analyser Bathroom Weighing Scales, Digital
Salter 9141 WH3R Analyser Bathroom Weighing Scales, Digital Scale For Body Weight, Body Fat/Water, BMI, Ultra Slim Glass Platform, 4 User Memory, Carpet Feet, Batteries Included, 160 kg Capacity
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| Weight: | 1.86 kg |
| Dimensions: | 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm; 1.86 Kilograms |
| Model: | 9141WH3R |
| Part: | 9141WH3R |
| Colour: | Glass |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | Yes |
| Batteries Included: | Lithium Manganese Dioxide |
| Manufacture: | Ultimate Products Ltd. |
| Dimensions: | 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm; 1.86 Kilograms |
| Quantity: | 1 |
Liked everything except the battery compartment. Cover secured by two small screws. Not sure how easy to open and replace batteries when the time comes. Otherwise great product at a very reasonable price.
The Salter 9141 WH3R Analyser Bathroom Weighing Scales provide an in-depth body analysis with commendable accuracy. Apart from weight, it offers metrics like body fat, water percentage, and BMI, making it a comprehensive health tool. The ultra-slim glass platform is robust yet sleek, ensuring the scale is a durable and stylish addition to any bathroom. Users have found the four-user memory feature particularly useful, enabling easy tracking of metrics for multiple users. The included carpet feet and batteries add convenience, with the scale ready for use straight out of the box. Considering its performance, ease of use, and comprehensive features, the Salter 9141 WH3R Analyser Bathroom Weighing Scales truly deserve a five-star review.
For their price the scales have a surprising amount of functions, it’s really useful to be able to track your body fat and water levels alongside your weight as it gives a better view of your overall health than just weight alone. It does take a little while to get the scales set up to give these extra details as the instructions aren’t the clearest, but once you’ve set up your profile it’s quite easy to access the extra information. I do live alone though so I don’t have to scroll through different profiles manually as mine is the only one on there, I can imagine it would be more annoying if there are 3 or 4 of you using the scales and you needed to select the right profile each time your stepped on the scales.
Build quality is excellent, the scales are big enough that I can easily fit on them (though my feet are only a size 10 so if you’re Bigfoot maybe you’ll struggle), and the figures it gives seem fairly consistent so I think they are quite accurate. The scales also feel sturdy enough to handle quite a bit of weight and my previous ones were still good as new after 3 years use. The only maintenance they required in that time was a new set of batteries, although in hindsight they also would have benefitted from a theft protection device of some sort. If you have less cheeky friends then me though you’ll likely be very happy with your purchase.
It has two ways of measuring weight. Weight only mode and using the Profile program mode, which supports 4 profiles.
[ To use weight only mode ]
– To turn it on, I actually knock it a bit, just a little tap, because sometime just stepping on it didn’t work.
– As soon as the scale started, leave the scale alone to switch to weight only mode.
– Or wait for it to display ‘0’ before you place both feet on it.
– And then just stand on the scale again to read your weight
[ To use Profile mode ]
This mode measures your body fat, BMI index and body water.
First you need to enter your details in a profile slot, it has 4.
You have to enter
– Gender
– height
– age and you are all set. However, this settings is quite a job as its not user friendly at all.
Remember your profile number. Next time when you switch it on,
– you can use the arrow key to select your profile.
– or you can stand on the scale and wait until your profile number comes and step off to select it.
– Then step back
– You will notice for ‘0’ icons on the display and wait for about 5 seconds. This is when the scale doing its calculations
– If the scale was able to measure your fat, water etc it will cycle through all the information before turning it off.
– Otherwise, it will only show your weight.
– Make sure your feet has enough moisture for all reading before use.
– The scale will display the last stored weight before giving you the new one, but it happens quite fast.
[ What is good about this item ]
– Consistence in reading
– I get 10 years of warranty, that is huge confidence
– The BMI measurement is quite accurate
– Easily cleanable, since it is being glass
– Very strong and durable
[ Then why 4 star ]
– Does not work on carpet. You must use solid floor. My full flat/house is carpet apart from kitchen and bathroom. This scale does not work correctly on carpet, despite using the carpet feet. So bad advertisement.
– Sometime it does not work unless I tap/knock/kick it
Make sure you don’t use someone else’s profile and get complete wrong BMI index, water mass etc and disappoint yourself.
This is absolutely a must have item for every one for every one should take care and control their weight.
I wanted a machine to give me more than weight – ideally body fat. I knew I would take 5 mins to set it up and I don’t have a set of scales so I didn’t want to spend a fortune in case I lost interest or it was too faffy. It’s great. Easy to set up, thin and easy to store standing up in a cupboard and it is fairly light. I love the fact that it gives you basic weight measurement if you just step on it but if you take 5 mins to programme it and learn how to get it to view your settings then it will provide you with your BMI, body fat and then hydration levels (the one I like the most). Thankfully the readings repeat a couple of times because there is no memory feature so you have to write them down or remember them and then use the tables in the manual to work out what they mean. The tables are a little small and fiddly to view and because of this, you need to store the manual next to the scales (and if you need them – have your glasses to hand!). I have to step off and on again a couple of times because I have to ensure my feet are on the metal pads. It is worth it though because it’s a very good machine. Ordered through HoMedics and it was delivered on time and efficiently. No problems at all and especially for the price I’m pleased.
It reads your weight in different units (stone, kg & lbs) which is great if your family is a mix of old school (my partner) and new (I read in kg’s because I’m familiar with that as an engineer). This is controlled by a switch on the under side of the unit, although it would have been nice to have included this as a setting so that it would change from user to user, but that’s just because I’m lazy (hence needing to get on top of my weight…)
As mentioned you can have up to 4 users saved in this machine – it records your height, age and gender. This is all used to help calculate your BMI. The water % feature is an interesting one too, and the metal plates on the top are used to take readings for this measurement. Just to add, for me this doesn’t work unless I put the ball of my foot as flat as possible against the metal plates – just tipping your toes over them isn’t enough for it to get a reading.
The instruction manual is a big thick booklet, but covers a multitude of languages and still has room to explain the importance of things like BMI and body water percentage etc. What I found particularly refreshing is that it fully acknowledges that there can be inaccuracies in the way these things read your BMI & body water percentage, and so you’re best off sticking to a single device to measure them for the sake of consistency.
In terms of advice though I would caution against buying the Salter 9141 if you do not have easy access to a flat and compression free floor surface upon which to place the scale.
I notice the number of negative reviews and I have some sympathy with these reviews: the main problem with the Salter 9141 is that it requires an absolutely flat and stable surface to work on. Bathroom lino will not, in my experience, work. Any surface that has even slight compression – and lino does have compression movement if only by a mm or so – will not work accurately. A wooden floor is ideal but, even then, it needs to be a floor without floorboard grooves.
If you do not have a flat and compression free floor surface then it’s best to pass on this scale despite the tempting price. Four plastic feet for use on a carpet are included in the box but, having tested the feet, I have to say the results (although improved) are far from accurate. If however you do have a flat and compression free floor surface then this scale is definitely worth checking out.
On a wooden and flat floor I have found the scale to be very accurate and consistent across the hours and days in the weight measurements it produces. I have checked the accuracy of the scale by weighing myself on a calibrated and checked medical use scale. I have also used the bag of flour test – weighing myself with and without holding a 1.5Kg bag of flour. The scale is very accurate if and only if it is used on the correct floor surface.
The scale uses a lithium watch style battery which is protected, out of the box, by a plastic pull strip.
There is a three position switch on the scale for switching between Kilograms, Stones and Pounds.
On switching the scale on, you have access to a basic weight setting or, through the up arrow and down arrow buttons and the “set” button, the four personalised settings which store basic details (height, age and sex) for four different users.
Some reviewers have commented on the fact that the enclosed manual is for a different model of scale. This is actually not the case although, again, I can understand why people have made this mistake. The scale has three buttons which, if you look at the scale front on, seem to be labelled (but actually are not labelled) “low”, “normal” and “high”. It seems that some reviewers have failed to spot that, on the back of the small plastic buttons that lay underneath the “low”, “normal” and “high” labels, there are in fact three other labels – “”, “Set” and “”. These labels are etched very faintly on to the buttons. The arrow and “set” buttons match perfectly with the buttons described in the instruction manual.
To select height and weight settings for, say, a 40 year old male with height 175cm you would do the following:
1) Press the arrow down button (or the arrow up button) to select an empty programme slot (1-4 possible slots).
2) Press the “set” button (the middle button)
3) Select gender by using up or down arrow to move between the two icons. The first icon is male and the second, very badly drawn icon (!), is female.
4) Press “set”
5) Select height – in the case above use arrow up to move from the default setting of 165cm to 175cm
5) Press the “set” button
6) Select age by using the arrow up or arrow down buttons and press “set”
That’s it.
To switch on the scale and select the programme you have two options: either use the arrow up and arrow down buttons to select the relevant programme (1-4). Pressing the arrow up or down buttons will turn the scale on. Then step on to the scale. Alternatively, just step on to the scale when it is turned off and the scale will cycle through programmes 1-4 – you have to step off the scale when it reaches your desired programme. It’s a bit of a reaction timing game and the first option is likely to be better. The scale will store your last measurement in its memory so that, if you remember to read it before weighing yourself anew, you can compare the measurements. It will not however calculate for you the change between your previous and current weight.
To activate the scale in weight only mode – not using one of the pre-programmed functions – place one (or two) feet on the scale with some weight placed on the foot/feet. The scale will then turn on. As soon as the LCD screen activates, remove your foot from the scale and the scale will then be active in weight only mode (it will not calculate BMI and will not try to calculate body fat/water). It is not necessary, in contrast to what some other reviewers have commented, to “knock” the scale to activate it although this will work as well.
The BMI measurement produced by the scale is very accurate because the scale uses basic maths to calculate BMI on the basis of height and weight.
The body fat and water calculations use electrical impendance testing to pass a very small current through your feet whilst measuring the resistance between the left foot and the right foot. I don’t really have any comments on the accuracy of the resulting body fat/body water calculations produced by the scale other than to say that, for me, the readings have been consistent and not fluctuated by more than 4% or so when I use the scale at the same time each morning before eating/drinking. How accurate the readings actually are is a question I can’t answer but I do note the general advice that consumer grade devices using electrical impendance tend not to be accurate for single measurements. They may be of some use in tracking changes over time (upward or downward general movements).
I would buy the scale again. In fact I would not hesitate to do so. However it is only going to be of use if you have access to a flat and compression free floor – wood is perfect. Lino is not so good at carpet is a no go.
-You have the option of choosing your units, stones, pounds or kilograms.
-It works well on the bathroom floor (hard and lino covered), there was no need to attach extra feet for carpeted floors; I cannot comment on how easy, or difficult this might be as I have not tried it.
-You have the option of programming in height, weight and age data for up to 4 people (easy to do).
-Then when you step on it cycles through the numbers 01 to 04, you step off when it gets to your number. It then displays the height and age of the person attached to that number before displaying a zero weight. You step on at this point and it gives you your weight in your chosen units. I found this to be very consistent from day to day. You then have a short delay whilst it calculates your BMI, body fat % and hydration level.
-On the first attempt it is difficult to know what is being displayed after weight as the letters and symbols labelling the figures are small to read from around 6ft away; this should not be a problem if you read the instructions first, or become used to the order figures are displayed in (this would be the reason I would not give it five stars).
-It looks great with a modern design.
-It is great value, I would recommend this product.
I bought this with a little trepidation having read the mixed reviews but we are delighted with the purchase. It weighs both of us with accuracy (compared to scales at GP) and reliably, rarely showing any variation from repeated weighings. BUT … you do need to follow the instructions properly and you need to give it time to settle after moving it. We were able to set out user data for both of us and got all the readings for both of us – but you need to make sure that your weigh yourself with bare feet (obvious?) which need to be slightly damp. We find that weighing shortly after a shower gives best results. The only thing that I would criticise is the value of the water content / body fat percentage calculation ….. the scales seem to measure (guess?) your water content and then calculate your body fat percentage based on that. Presumably it takes a bit off for bones and divides the balance up between water and fat. The good news, if you’re overweight like me, is that you can “lose” over 10% of your body fat overnight just by drinking lots of water 🙂 Or maybe just by having really wet feet? Anyway, it’s a good looking scale and it weighs you accurately … the rest are just cute gimmicks … but we rather like them.
1) These scales look really nice
2) You MUST put the carpet feet on if you are going to use it on carpet, even on short pile, because the scales are so low-level that carpet gets in the way and the readings are *way* off with the regular feet (for me it was 10kg less or so – I wish!). Just peel off the rubber feet (a little stubborn) and clip in the carpet feet provided. Other reviews said to screw them on but there were no screws provided with my scales. The feet seem to snap on fairly well without screws. There are no instructions provided for changing the feet… Bad Salter!
3) The readings so far seem very consistent. The accuracy is quoted at 0.1kg or 0.2lb. I have mine on stones and pounds, and the readings seem consistently the same in the last decimal point.
4) Who knows if the fat/water measurements are “accurate” but these also seem fairly consistent between uses. I came out at the fat end of OK, my wife at the fit/muscley end – lucky me! BMI calc seems correct (weight in kg divided by square of height in metres).
5) Note: The instruction booklet says not to use the fat/water/BMI measurements if you have a pacemaker or implanted device, or if you’re pregnant.
6) The four-person memory just remembers the gender, height and age of four people, not their previous weights/BMIs/readings, but that’s OK for me.
7) For a quick weigh you just press the scale with your foot and wait for it to zero. Then stand on it. This gives you your weight only.
8) For the full monty you need to select your “slot” (memory number) using the buttons on the back edge, it then shows the stored height and age (to ensure you’re on the right slot, I assume) and it then zeroes itself. You step on, it weighs you, showing the weight as it goes, then displays four little ‘o’s as it does it’s fat measurements – another 3-4s. At this point it either then just displays your weight again, or cycles through your weight, BMI, fat and water percentages a few times before turning off. If your feet aren’t “moist” enough it just shows your weight. I had to dampen my feet to get my readings: my wife’s feet were apparently already moist enough… 😉
9) The booklet (10 pages each for a dozen languages) says it is only calibrated for kids over 16 and the BMI/fat/water for those over 20, but that hasn’t stopped my kids being entertained by it and using it anyway.
Overall, I’m very pleased so far – the price was reasonable, the main function of the scales seems accurate and consistent, and it also has the whole fat/water gimmick!
EDIT: 2015-07-20 Just thought I’d add that, three years later, my scales are still working perfectly. I’ve changed the battery once and think I need to again soon as it flashed up a “low battery” message a week or two ago.