USESCALE with no color?

I’m trying to set up Icon swap based on fping but with no color changes to the LABEL.
There is no SCALE min max tagtext and if I add colors to the SCALE they over rule LABELBGCOLOR none.
Is there a transparent color I can use or a way I can adjust the SCALE so the colors are not mixed in?

My config:

SCALE UPDOWN   0    0.1   255 0 0	up 
SCALE UPDOWN   0.1  0.99  0 255 0   recovering
SCALE UPDOWN   0.99 100   0 0 255   down

NODE DEFAULT
        LABELOUTLINECOLOR none
        LABELBGCOLOR none
        USESCALE UPDOWN

NODE 1
        LABEL TEST
        LABELOUTLINECOLOR none
        LABELBGCOLOR none
        USESCALE UPDOWN
        ICON images/router_{node:this:inscaletag}.png
        TARGET fping:11.11.11.11