Load Cell - 200kg, S-Type (TAS501) Product Help and Resources
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OpenScale Applications and Hookup Guide
July 22, 2016
OpenScale allows you to have a permanent scale for industrial and biological applications. Learn how to use the OpenScale board to read and configure load cells.
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Getting Started with Load Cells
June 11, 2015
A tutorial defining what a load cell is and how to use one.
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Load Cell Amplifier HX711 Breakout Hookup Guide
July 22, 2016
A hookup guide for the HX711 load cell amplifier breakout board
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Core Skill: Soldering
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1 Soldering
Skill Level: Noob - Some basic soldering is required, but it is limited to a just a few pins, basic through-hole soldering, and couple (if any) polarized components. A
basic soldering iron is all you should need.
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Core Skill: Electrical Prototyping
If it requires power, you need to know how much, what all the pins do, and how to hook it up. You may need to reference datasheets, schematics, and know the ins and
outs of electronics.
2 Electrical Prototyping
Skill Level: Rookie - You may be required to know a bit more about the component, such as orientation, or how to hook it up, in addition to power requirements.
You will need to understand polarized components.
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Member #455681 / about 6 months ago / 1
This is my biggest engineer pet peeve: the description says that this load cell can “translate up to 200kg pressure (force) into an electrical signal”. Kilograms are
neither pressure nor force, kilograms are mass. I’m sure you all at SparkFun know that pressure, force, and mass are not interchangeable - so why use those
terms inaccurately?
Member #57306 / about 6 months ago / 1
Thank you for at least mentioning once or twice what this CAN measure. Could the marketing people PLEASE take their copy to a physicist, and get the errors
in this ironed out? I know that marketing wants us to think it can do anything, including iron our clothes, and include lots of words for search engines to pick up,
but they have gone so far that to some readers they’ve made you look foolish.
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