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Load Cell - 200kg, S-Type (TAS501)
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This S-Type load cell (sometimes called a strain gauge) can translate up to 200kg of pressure (force) into an electrical signal. Each load cell is able to measure the
electrical resistance that changes in response and proportion to the strain (e.g., pressure or force) applied to the form. With this gauge you will be able to tell just how
heavy an object is, if an object’s weight changes over time, or if you simply need to sense the presence of an object by measuring strain or load applied to a surface.
Each straight bar load cell is made from an alloy steel and is capable of reading a capacity up to 200kg. These load cells have four strain gauges that are hooked up in a
Wheatstone bridge formation. The color code on the wiring is as follows: red = E+, green = O+, black = E-, and white = O-. Additionally, these load cells offer an
IP66 protection rating and feature two M4 and two M5 sized through-holes for mounting purposes.
Get Started with the Load Cell Guide
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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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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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