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4-WIRE LOAD CELLS TRIMMING

The figure below shows a diagram of three excitation trimmed load cells. 

A  temperature-independent  variable  resistor  or  potentio-meter  of  typically  20 

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There  are  two  methods  of  trimming  with  excitation.  The  first  method  is  to  adjust  the 

potentiometers by trial and error whilst moving calibration weights around from corner to 

corner.  AII potentiometers  should be adjusted  to have the  maximum sensitivity for each 

cell by completely turning clockwise all them. 

Then once the lowest output corner is located, the other cell are trimmed down to match 

this lowest output. 

This method may be very time consuming,  particularly for high capacity scales, or vessel 

scales  where the  use of test weigths  at the  corners  is not practical.  In  these  cases  the 

second and best  method is "pretrimming"  the potentiometers with the use of a sensitive 

voltmeter (at least 4 1/2 digit). The following procedure can be used: 

1) Determine  the  exact mVN rating of each load cell,  which  can be  found  on  the  load

cell's calibration certificate.

2) Determine  the  exact  excitation  voltage  supplied  by  the  signal  conditioning

device/measurer  (Z-SG  for  example)  by  measuring  this  voltage  with  the  voltmeter  (for

example 10.05 V)

3) Multiply the lowest mVN-value (step 1) by the excitation voltage (step 2).

4) Divide  the trimming-factor found  in  step  3 by the  mVN-value for the  remaining  load

cells.

5) Measure and adjust the excitation voltage of the three remaining load cells with each

respective potentiometer. Verify the results and make the final adjustment while moving

a testload corner to corner.

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