The OHAUS FD Food Portioning Scale – Speed, Durability and Cleanliness Designed for Food Service Use

The OHAUS FD is a rugged, multi-use portioning scale designed for use in food service applications. Ideally suited for food portioning and checkweighing, the FD combines an easily cleaned design, fast display and high precision load cell. Designed for use in restaurants, bakeries, food manufacturing and other areas requiring fast operation and flexibility, the OHAUS FD scale offers durability and cleanliness in one economical design.

• The 120-hour internal rechargeable battery will help ensure that your scale is up and running when you need it, even during long shifts.
• The fully stainless steel FD is NSF Certified and supports HACCP-Certified systems helping to ensure the integrity and safety of the weighing of all food products.
• With software for general weighing, percent weighing and checkweighing, the FD can be used for a variety of food weighing needs.

Easy to Set-Up for Your Operation:

The OHAUS FD Food Portioning Scale Has All The Features You Need:
Selectable Weighing Units — The FD Food Portioning Scale can be set up to display all, some, or only one weighing unit to match the requirements of your operation.

Lb & Oz Display— The FD Food Scale can display a decimal pound to 3 decimal places, as well as 1/4 fractional or decimal ounces, and can even display results in a combined lb:oz display.

Metric Display — For metric use, the FD Food Scale can display results in kilograms or grams with a readability ranging from 0.5g to 2 g, depending on model.

Percent Weight — Allows users to compare the weight of a sample as a percentage of a reference weight.
Change Units Quickly — The unit displayed can be changed with a single key press

Set It Up and Lock It In — The FD Food Portioning Scale can be set to the mode and weighing units required, and then locked-in using either software or hardware locks. The OHAUS FD Food Portioning Scale can be locked to ensure the configuration you choose is the configuration you use!

Easy to Calibrate — The FD Food Portioning Scale’s software menu allows the user to recalibrate the FD Scale to ensure accurate results. To prevent accidental recalibration, the FD Food Portioning Scale also can be configured using software and hardware calibration lockouts. The user can calibrate the FD scale using either span (two-point) or linear (three point) calibration setups.

Legal-For-Trade Modes Included — For operations that require certified performance, either to NTEP or Measurement Canada standards, the Food Portion Scale includes legal-for-trade software (non-H models only). 

For Checkweighing Applications, The OHAUS FD Can Be Quickly Configured:
The FD Portioning Scale can be set to either simply display a weight, or can be set to act as a dedicated, lowprofile checkweigher for food portioning and grading:

Portioning and Prepackaging — With the positive checkweighing mode for packaging, add to the portion on the pan until you reach the weight you need

Portioning Out of the Box — Use the negative checkweighing mode for portioning and pizza making, portioning out of a container on the pan until the required weight is reached

Sorting & Grading — The “zero” checkweighing method is designed for sorting and grading operations, so you can check portions against preset limits

Quickly Set Targets — Target weights can be entered quickly using the dedicated Setpoint key
Bright LED’s and Buzzer Speed Use — Progress against weight targets can be indicated with the three LED’s, with indications for Over, Accept and Under with selectable audible buzzer.

Designed for Food Service Use:
Fast, Easy-To-Read Display — The FD Food Portioning Scale is designed to clearly and quickly display weighing results:
Large, backlit LCD displayFast display updates – within 2 seconds

• Bright LED indicators for Checkweighing mode
• Text display of weight units – no cryptic unit designations or hard-to-read annunciators
• Audible buzzer alerts user when limits are reached
• Battery power level indicator
• Bright annunciators for scale stability, center of zero, net and tare weights, checkweighing mode indication

Manual or Auto Tare — The FD Food Portioning Scale can be configured to accept tare signals using:

• Manual taring using the large, dedicated Tare key
• The FD can be set-up to automatically tare the first weight placed on the pan
• For hands-free operation, the FD scale can also be tared using the optional foot switch

Physical Features:
Stainless steel top and bottom housings, dishwasher safe stainless steel pan, backlit LCD display, rubber user-adjustable leveling feet, front panel leveling bubble, internal rechargeable lead-acid battery, external AC wall adapter, weight/mode stability/center of zero/net weight/tare weight/text unit indication, 4-bar battery status indicator with low-battery warning, 3 LED’s and buzzer for use in checkweighing mode, dedicated tare key, audible buzzer with user-selectable volume control, selectable scale auto-off, sealable scale configuration and calibration lockout switch.

Operational Features:
Selectable environmental averaging settings, backlight control with auto-off option, selectable weighing units, configurable checkweighing mode, configurable software lockout menu, span or linearity calibration in kg or lb unit with optional external masses, semi-automatic or automatic tare, selectable auto-zero tracking.