Junction Box Type KEK-4 Technical Manual Rev. 2.0.0 December 2022 Seite/ Page 11/12
T
ERMINAL DESIGNATION
S
ELECTION OF
4-
WIRE AND
6-
WIRE OPERATION
4 wire connection
With 4-wire load cells, the sense connections are omitted.
For 4 wire operation the jumpers JP5 and JP6 then must be inserted, otherwise the weighing unit cannot
work correctly.
6 wire connection
With 6-wire load cells, the jumpers JP5 and JP6 must be removed in order to activate the sense lines.
Fig.2
Fig. 3
4 wire operation
6 wire operation
O
UTPUT
C
ABLE
C
ONNECTION
The signal cable (connection between junction box and the following electronics) should be a 6 wire
shielded cable and has to be kept as short as possible. Depending on type and manufacturer signal cables
may have different colours. Therefore, make your own choice.
Cable colour, example
Description / Terminal designation
outer cable screen
= Shield
pink
= Signal
white
=
grey
= Sense
brown
= Excitation
yellow
= Sense +
green
= Exci
