Sounds like the method used in a standard "counting scale" - used to use one of these to count material for circuit board construction. The things are usually so accurate, you are only off by - maybe - one or two parts (assuming you get a good representative sample)
Example (NOT a recommendation!) http://www.amazon.com/My-Weigh-CTS-6000-Digital-Counting/dp/B004C3B4C4 Jack On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:54 PM, John Mort <[email protected]> wrote: > We just finished a big project that included running a bunch of cable for > workstations. We have another such project scheduled for the end of the > year. Though we bought a bunch of new boxes of cable for this last project > and I'm confident that we have enough cable for this next one, I'd like to > be sure. > > The idea occurred to me that we could cut out a section of cable and weigh > it, then weigh the boxes of cable, determine the weight of an empty box and > subtract that, then use division to determine how many feet of cable are > left in the box. > > Has anyone done anything like this before? What kind of scale did you > use? Is there a better way to do this? > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > May 6 - Cgroups, Containers, Docker And Me > > -- Google Voice: (914) 468-4552 ---------------------------------------- Prov. 12:15 Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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