Whatever you mean by "goes to over" ~ depends on two things. ONE ~ the sheer physical capacity of the load cell. I'd recommend a steel block. TWO ~ a high quality e-ink screen with plenty of room for plenty of digits in 14 pt type or higher. That way you'll be able to read it across the room.
Now, back to the original point ~ someone said a "bathroom scale" was being used to weigh materials that went into the make up of the reactor.
No evidence was provided that the device was, in fact, a bathroom scale, but modern technology in the field of force measurement is such that the difference between a high tech scale with great precision is not very great. So what looked like a bathroom scale to you could have been just a part of a scale installation. These devices simply don't have to sweat the small stuff like "points" these days ~ mostly because they don't need moving parts.
Someone should come up with a picture of the device you think is a bathroom scale though. Then, I'll show you a picture of my alarm clock.
You can go to Bed Bath and Beyond for this honey available at $44.95 ~ in this configuration the capacity is a mere 320 pounds ~ no porkers here eh.
Obviously this will NOT stand up to a huge 13,000 KG item, but the only claim of a picture of a bathroom scale in the Rossi videos is where one was used to weigh a module ~ at 80kg ~ for which this scale would be satisfactory.
At the moment this particular scale is calibrated at .2 pound increments but you reprogram the chip and toss in a more robust bit of coding for counting you could probably run the precision all the way out as far as the chip's adding machine is capable ~ (thinking of chips in terms of their devices is a good way to understand what the force measurement device is doing).
You'd need a stronger containing frame to weigh 13,000 kg, but why would you need that much capacity when you are only weighing 80 kg.
