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Stressful Load Cell Applications
Traditionally a strain gauge load cell has a resistance foil attached to an elastic element which when a load is applied changes, this change can then be measured and converted into a digital output and is used to ascertain the weight or mass.
Top 10 Load Cells Videos on You Tube
Load Cells on You Tube! You Tube is a huge growing online directory of video clips which have been posted by the general public, general business and the media industry. Here we take a look at the top ten videos when searching for Load Cells.
Using Load Cells to Weigh Things
In business load cells become even more important for all sorts of different reasons, the most common perhaps being to accurately measure how much of an item is being sold or how much of an item is included in the manufacturing process.
Why Do We Weigh Things With Load Cells?
For most of us our first introduction to scales and weighing things happens in the bathroom with the standard bathroom scales. We stand on the platform and either mechanically or digitally our weight is displayed. Weighing things soon becomes an everyday part of our lives weather through cooking & baking, checking our luggage in at airports or feeling the "quality" of a nice wristwatch.
Floor Scales with Digital Load Cells
Floor scales are most often placed on top of a level ground surface or placed in a pit into the floor with little disruption to the floor surface. With a good solid build the floor scale makes it much safer and more efficient to quickly measure the weight of heavy and large items without the need for lifting. Standard pallet trucks or trolleys can also be used to further improve the work flow when it is required to take a measurement from a large and normally difficult item.
Shockproof Load Cells used in Bench or Platform Scales
When high accuracy levels of measurement are required in tough environments with low to high shock loads, you can rely on Eilersen shockproof load cells in bench scales, to effortlessly accomplish the task at hand.
Shockproof Load Cells in Floor Scales
Floor scales come in many different shapes and sizes for different weighing applications. Here we take a look at the advantages of using floor scale with digital load cells from Eilersen. This digital principle doesn’t use the normal method of strain gauge cells but instead uses a capacitive measurement principle that provides numerous benefits.
Load Cell Technology - Introduction to the Eilersen Capacitive Load Cell
Modern industrial processes are digitally controlled but the majority of sensors for measuring force and weight are still transmitting analog signals (voltage or current). There are obvious benefits in generating digital signals directly from the sensors in relation to ease of integration, implementation, use, and maintenance.
Eilersen develops, produces and sells such sensors with a direct digital output based on a world-wide patented capacitive measuring principle.
Load Cells for demanding applications
Eilersen Capacitive Load Cells offer many advantages for demanding applications when compared to Strain Gage based Load Cells. Such advantages include but are not limited to high sensitivity and small deflection, ease of installation, overload and shock tolerance, overall cost of installation and maintenance and flexibility of use.
Load Cells for big Silos and Vessels
The heavy duty compression load cell type DH from Eilersen is ideally suited for large silos and vessels up to several 100 tons. The DH load cell is a shockproof digital load cell developed for heavy duty use in extreme environments. The load cell is supplied pre-calibrated which is a big advantage in applications where it is difficult to obtain suitable calibration weights.
Load Cells for Tanks and Vessels
There are many vendors of load cells in the marketplace and so here we explain the benefits of using an Eilersen Load Cell for your tanks and vessels. The initial benefit is found with a simpler and more hygienic installation and minimal maintenance of your weighing system.
Load Cells for Conveyor Belts
The simple mechanical and electrical installation of the Eilersen digital load cells is a big advantage for load cells integrated in conveyer belts. The Eilersen load cells contain no moving parts and the non-contact capacitive measurement principle results in simpler installation and maintenance of your weighing system as the load cells are installed without mechanical overload protection.
Load Cell Maintenance
Eilersen digital weighing systems require no maintenance as there are no mounting and protection devices to adjust and keep clean and no fuses, gaskets, bearings etc. to change. Also, the Eilersen load cells contain no moving parts.
Customised Digital Load Cells
Using the patented capacitive technology Eilersen also offers its expertise to customers with special requests where the digital capacitive technology can often be the solution to challenging applications and at the same time reduce installation and maintenance costs
Digital Single Point Load Cells
Single point load cells, sometimes referred to as platform load cells, are particularly useful to allow the load to be placed anywhere on the weighing platform (i.e. eccentric loading) without negatively affecting the measurement
The Hammer vs The Digital Load Cell
The digital capacitive load cell has many advantages over the strain gage load cell in terms of measurement accuracy, resolution, simplicity of installation, and robustness and much more. Part of the much more is its exciting ability to withstand shocks, vibrations and tough environments without the need for constant maintenance and repair.
Load Cell Weighing solutions for conveyer belts and belt scales
Typically beam load cells are used when incorporating load cell weighing systems into a conveyer belt or belt scales. With beam load cells, the frame and upper part of the conveyer belt is fixed.
Gravitation Measurement with Load Cells
It is usually very important for the actual weight of product/material within the tank or silo to be known at any one time. This is usually achieved by placing supporting load cells within the legs of the tank. Using Eilersen's unique capacitive digital load cells in this manner offers several advantages over more standard load cells.
Load Cell Weighing solutions for conveyer belts
Whenever we think of conveyer belts in industry we imagine a noisy bustling system of tracks and turns with product moving at a steady consistant rate through a huge array of strange looking devices and weighing machines.
Load Cells for Gravitational Level Measurement
There are many occurances in light, medium and heavy industry where the level measurement must be recorded and utilizing a load cell to measure the gravitational level is a suitable solution. It is common to find a strain gauge type load cell fitted against each leg of the tank or silo to calculate the level however with susceptibility to shocks, tremors and overloads a better load cell to use would be a non-contact capacitive digital load cell.
