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USER MANUAL Body Balance Pacific SOEHNLE

By choosing the Body Balance, you are making an important contribution to your health care. This electronic body monitoring scale performs the following functions:

The Body Balance uses your personal data and the recommendations of health and body composition experts to determine your ideal level of body fat, body water and weight.
Individual evaluation of analysis results with personal recommendation (see page 16)
4/8-person memory with automatic personal recognition

Important advice

We recommend that you consult a doctor if you are overweight and are trying to reduce your weight, or if you are underweight and are trying to put on weight. Treatment and diet should only take place in consultation with your doctor.

Recommendations on exercise programmes or weight loss diets, on the basis of the values determined, should be provided by your doctor or certified health professional. Do not try to interpret the data yourself.

SOEHNLE will not be liable for damage or loss caused by the Body Balance or for third party claims.

This product is intended for personal home use only. It is not designed for professional use in hospitals or medical facilities.
Not suitable for people with electronic implants, such as pacemakers, etc.

Preparation for use

① Remove the battery fixing strips.

② Always place the scale on a level, firm surface for measurements.

③ Caution: danger of slipping on wet surface.

④ Cleaning and care: clean only with a damp cloth. Never use solvents or abrasives. Do not immerse the scale in water.

⑤ Country-specific settings: the scale can be switched from kg/cm to lb/in or st/in (applies to the English-language versions only).

For glass scales:

For plastic scales:

Programming

① Place scale on a table for programming.
② Start programming () .
③ Memory location (P1 ... P4/8) select ( = minus, = plus) and confirm ( = ) .

④ Enter your height (▼ = minus, ▲ = plus) and confirm ( )

⑤ Enter your age (▼= minus, ▲ = plus) and confirm ( )

⑥ Input your gender (▼ = male or ▲ = female) ...

...and press for 3 sec. to confirm () until 0.0 appears in display.

Now place the scale on the floor immediately and stand on it barefoot.

The initial measurement reading is vital for the memorizing of data and for subsequent automatic personal recognition.

Note

The scale has an energy-saving mode that switches it off automatically if no keys are pressed for approximately 1 minute.

Body monitoring

Always measure in bare feet. Personal data must be programmed first (page 13).

① Step on to the scale.

Your weight is indicated, with a bar display while analysis is taking place (25-30 seconds).

Stand still until analysis is complete.

② As soon as automatic personal recognition has taken place, the screen switches over to alternate display of body-fat percentage (and body water proportion Interpretation of results (page 16).

③ Step off the scale. The scale switches off automatically when the person steps off.

In a few cases, it may not be possible to organize automatically the results of analysis. The scale will then display alternately the memory locations of the next persons for whom analysis is to take place.

As the measurement operation is now over, you can step off the scale and save your personal data by pressing the button above. The display will now show your body-fat, body-water and muscle-proportion data.

Note that you will only obtain a weight reading - and no body monitoring data - if you step on the scale with your shoes or socks on!

Factors influencing measurement readings

Analysis is based on the measurement of the body's electrical resistance. Eating and drinking habits during the course of the day and individual lifestyle affect the water balance. This is noticeable by the fluctuations in the display.

In order to ensure that the results of analysis are a accurate and consistent as possible, keep the measurement conditions constant, as only in this way will you be able to observe changes over an extended period.

Other factors can affect water balance:

After a bath, the body fat reading may be too low and the body water reading too high.
After a meal, readings can be higher.
Women may experience fluctuations due to the menstrual cycle.

Due to loss of water caused by illness or after physical activity (sport). After taking exercise, wait for 6 to 8 hours before carrying out the next measurement.

Varying or implausible results can occur in the case of:

Persons with a high temperature, symptoms of oedema or osteoporosis
Persons undergoing dialysis treatment
Persons taking cardiovascular medicine
Pregnant women
Athletes who undertake more than 10 hours of intensive training per week and have a resting pulse rate of under 60 / min
Competitive athletes and body builders
Persons under the age of 17.

Health experts recommend the following percentages :

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10-12	<8	8-18	18-24	>24	>64	<12	12-23	23-30	>30	>60
12-18	<8	8-18	18-24	>24	>63,5	<15	15-25	25-33	>33	>58,5
18-30	<8	8-18	18-24	>24	>62,5	<20	20-29	29-36	>36	>56
30-40	<11	11-20	20-26	>26	>61	<22	22-31	31-38	>38	>53
40-50	<13	13-22	22-28	>28	>60	<24	24-33	33-40	>40	>52
50-60	<15	15-24	24-30	>30	>59	<26	26-35	35-42	>42	>51
60+	<17	17-26	26-34	>34	>58	<28	28-37	37-47	>47	>50

Individual recommendation

Percentage of body fat

	≈	≈ ~
	Specific training recommended	Specific training recommended - make sure you drink plenty of fluid
	Everything OK fat/muscle mass and weight in balance	Body fat and weight are OK, but you are not drinking enough
	Change of diet recommended	A change of diet is recommended - make sure you drink plenty of fluid

1 Very low muscle mass - excessively underweight
2 Very low muscle mass - underweight
3 Low muscle mass - weight OK
4 Athletic, slim

5 Ideal

6 Athletic muscular
7 High fat level - weight OK
8 Very high fat level - overweight
9 Very high fat level - highly overweight

Percentage of body water

*normal

Technical data

Weighing capacity x graduation = max. 150kg x 100g
Display resolution: Body-fat proportion: 0.1%
Display resolution: Body-water proportion: 0,1%
Height: 100 -250 cm
Age: 10-99 years
4/8-person individual memory locations
Size of LCD screen
Measuring circuit: 0.035 mA RMS, 50 kHz
Batteries: 2 x 3 V CR 2430

Batteries supplied with unit.

Symbols

① Batteries spent.
② Overload: From 150kg
③ Implausible analysis result - check individual programming
④ Bad foot-contact:
+ clean scale or feet or check for sufficient skin moisture.
⑤ If skin is too dry - moisten feet or carry out measurement after taking a bath or shower.

Change batteries

Warranty

SOEHNLE guarantees that all defects due to materials or manufacturing faults will be remedied by replacement or repair, free of charge, for a period of 3 years from the date of purchase. Please keep your purchase receipt and the guarantee card in a safe place. If you have any complaints, please return the scale to your dealer with the guarantee card and receipt.

This device is screened in accordance with the applicable EC Directive 89/336/EEC.

Note: the display value may be affected by extreme electromagnetic influences, e.g. when a radio is operated in the immediate vicinity of the device. The product can be used for its intended purpose again when the interference disappears (a reset may be required)

Disposal of spent batteries: Batteries must not be disposed of as normal household waste. Note that you are legally obliged to dispose of used batteries in a correct way. You can return spent batteries either to public collection points in your town or to any outlet selling batteries of the same kind.

Pb = Battery contains lead

Cd = Battery contains cadmium

Hg = Battery contains mercury

Guarantee card

If you have any complaints, p lease return the scale to your dealer with the guarantee card and your receipt.

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18-30	<8	8-18	18-24	>24	>62,5	<20	20-29	29-36	>36	>56
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