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Typical weight range?

Louis's picture
Submitted by Louis on Tue, 04/28/2015 - 10:08pm
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This is a really nicely done project!. I wonder, what's the range of weight that you're trying to address with this? Is there a reason you use this hydraulic approach rather than load cells?

Best,
Louis

Trenton's picture
Submitted by Trenton on Wed, 04/29/2015 - 9:36pm

Thanks Louis. Typical weight range for my project about 500 to 1,500 lbs. I sourced an amplifier chip specially made for load cells, but I found good load cells were expensive - so much so that a scales built with load cells would not be much cheaper than just buying cattle scales. Hydraulics and pressure transducers were much less expensive.