How to Fix Mitutoyo Calipers Dashes Flashing on Display After Replacing Batteries
After replacing a dead battery in my Mitutoyo calipers with a fresh new good quality battery (Buy batteries on Amazon) the display started flashing with dashes, and no amount of button pressing would make it go away. I had to do a little research to find out that the way to get rid of the dashes is to do a hard reset. Watch this video above to learn how to fix the issue on the standard Mitutoyo Digimatic calipers:
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How to Fix Mitutoyo Calipers Dashes Flashing on Display
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Push the ORIGIN button and hold it for more than one second, until the flashing dashes disappear, and the screen shows a normal reading. Then the Mitutoyo calipers will operate normally again.
