{"id":2662,"date":"2023-08-03T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2023-08-03T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:48:56","slug":"simulating-a-load-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/geek-area\/load-cells\/wheatstone-bridge\/simulating-a-load-cell","title":{"rendered":"Simulating a load cell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Potentiometer and resistor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A pot and a resistor can be used as a really simple way of simulating a load cell. Take the following example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.5v excitation voltage<br>2mV per volt at full range.<br>2.5v excitation x 2mV per volt means it will output 5mV at full load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A typical 4 pin loadcell connection:<br>1 \u2013 0V<br>2 \u2013 \\ Differential voltage sense<br>3 \u2013 \/ <br>4 \u2013 2.5V<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a 1K test pot:<br>1 &#8211; \\ Linked and connect to pot CCW<br>2 &#8211; \/<br>3 \u2013 Pot wiper<br>4 \u2013 To 510K resistor then to pot CW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1K pot with a series 510K resistor to 2.5V gives 0 to 4.9mV output on the pot wiper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potentiometer and resistor A pot and a resistor can be used as a really simple way of simulating a load cell. Take the following example: 2.5v excitation voltage2mV per volt at full range.2.5v excitation x 2mV per volt means it will output 5mV at full load. A typical 4 pin loadcell connection:1 \u2013 0V2 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wheatstone-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}