Johannes Gleim Apr 14, 2020:

@ Michelangela It's no feedback control as supposed by some peers but a keyboard like this: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/JOLLY2-4-Weight-Indic...
https://french.alibaba.com/product-detail/jolly2-4-weight-in...

Kim Metzger Apr 12, 2020:

Yes, alternates - not numbers and values entered after something else (subsequently)

Michelangela (asker) Apr 12, 2020:

French source might be a translation It seems that the display alternates/switches between showing a code, and the screen that allows entering a value. The analogy with the wrist watch was very useful. As a non-native French speaker and engineer, I fully understand what they mean with "sensibilité de la capteur": if the object placed on the load cell weights less than a certain threshold, it might not be detected. It happens all the time with ordinary scales as well. I couln't find the term in question "alterné à la valeur" in any English version online. I translated it as "alternates with a value".

Schtroumpf Apr 12, 2020:

A considérer aussi... ... que cet échantillon de texte n'a sans doute pas été rédigé par un francophone compétent. "La sensibilité de la capteur" ??? Une pure horreur.
A part ça, je pense que l'intuition de Tony est la plus probable (affichage alterné d'un type de grandeur et de sa valeur, par exemple).

Johannes Gleim Apr 12, 2020:

It's logically You never could enter both data simultaneously. The entered data are stored and need not to be re-entered. Or do you assume a device without internal memory, requiring to re-enter all data again and again?

Kim Metzger Apr 11, 2020:

Herr Gleim wrote: "reminds me a digital wrist-watch" But why "subsequently"?

Tony M Apr 11, 2020:

@ Asker May depend on the wider context, in particular, how these things are being displayed, and how they are being entered.
If this were a very simply numeric display, it could simply be that the code alternates with the value — in other words, when the code appears, it then displays say - - - for you to enter the value required.