Hi George,
I totally agree, I was going to thank John but you beat me to it!
It is so refreshing to read a post from someone (John) who speaks with facts and not just opinions.
Cheers Paul
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On 01 November 2021 at 18:06 "George Taylor, IV" <gtaylor@...> wrote:
John,
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Thank you very much – your knowledge is greatly appreciated and valuable to the community.
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George
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S-type load cells?work in both tension and compression and these ones have a 7/16 UNC threaded hole in top and bottom, which I made pivot pin type connections to.
The blade is just silver soldered to the connectors.
Because I bought the loadcell and the reader as a pair, the loadcell just plugged into the reader.
Totally Chinese instructions that I could not decipher and?no amount of pressing and holding buttons?etc could I make it read in Lb's or Kgs though its supposed to.?
The reader?reads in units of 20g, Reading of 10,000 units = 200kg. A minor pain in the butt but otherwise its been faultless.??
When I calibrated it against the research grade 500kg loadcell on the tensile tester at the engineering school, the thing calibrated perfectly with slope of 1:1 and intercept of zero, so no need to worry about the accuracy of these $20 loadcells.? Even the $5 Airport luggage weigh scales were as accurate.
All loadcells?creep a little if left under load, I found?out too, but if you read it within a minute or two it's stable.
Easiest to get off AliExpress see the attached Word doc with some screenshots of searches - jv
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