Tru-Test ID5000 scale indicator (bluetooth)

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Weighing without recording is half a job. The weights go on a clipboard, the clipboard goes in the truck, and by the time anyone types them up the session has lost its context. An indicator that keeps its own records changes the day: read the tag, take the weight, move on, and sort it out later at the kitchen table. The ID5000 stores up to 250,000 records across 250 weighing sessions, holding as many as three IDs and three data fields per animal. The 7 inch screen is high brightness and switches between indoor and outdoor modes on its own, which matters when a session starts in a dark shed and finishes in full sun. Superdamp 4 processing settles a moving animal onto a number quickly. Connectivity covers Bluetooth Class 1 out to about 100 m (300 ft), Wi-Fi, USB and mini-USB, plus a C16 port that takes an adaptor cable for up to three connections. That is what lets it pair with a Tru-Test stick or panel reader for EID capture and push sessions to the Datamars apps on Android or Apple, or to Windows software. Drafting on weight runs up to five ways. The case is IP67 rated, so wash-down and weather are not a concern, and the battery gives around 10 hours with the backlight on or 13 hours with it off, recharging in about 7 hours. It reads any Tru-Test load bars without recalibration. For herds using EID for CCIA traceability, the tag and the weight land in the same record, which turns pulling a history on one animal into a search rather than a hunt through paper.