Load Cell

In a food, beverage or dairy plant, load cells get hosed down with hot water and strong cleaning chemicals every day, so they must be s...

The easiest way to understand how load cells fit together is to see them in real jobs. This guide walks through five common weighing sy...

Some places can explode if a spark appears: grain silos full of dust, fuel depots, chemical plants, paint booths and mills. Equipment u...

A load cell on its own produces only a tiny electrical signal, often just a few thousandths of a volt, so you need something to boost i...

To weigh a tank, silo or hopper, you support the vessel on three or four load cells, add up their signals and subtract the weight of th...

In Australia, if you sell or charge for goods or services by weight, the scale you use must meet trade measurement rules. In practice t...

Load cell datasheets are full of short, technical terms such as mV/V, creep, hysteresis and C3. Each one describes something simple tha...

A load cell is a small metal block that turns weight or force into an electrical signal, and it sits inside almost every industrial sca...