Load Cell Wiring Arduino

A good option for connecting all the load cells in a clean easy to understand way is the sparkfun load cell combinator board.

Load cell wiring arduino.

This can get a little confusing. It s a low. Luckily there is a new option for those seeking a plug and play solution to avoid extra wiring and coding. This board makes interfacing an arduino and an instrumentation amplifier significantly easier.

The most common strain gauge is made up of very fine wire or foil set up in a grid pattern in such a way that. The changes in electrical resistance provided by the load cell need to be amplified so that they can be read by an arduino. We recommend our combinator board to make it easy to turn the four strain gauges into a wheatstone bridge type load cell. A load cell is a physical element or transducer if you want to be technical that can translate pressure force into an electrical signal.

Single strain gauge load cells only have three wires instead of four suggested reading. After uploading the code above and appropriately wiring the hx711 to the arduino and also ensuring the hx711 is properly wired to the load cell the code should output a value close to half of 2 24 this allows the load cell to measure both positive and negative load. That s exactly what the hx711 board does. If you are planning on using load sensors 1 you will need to obtain or purchase four units.

If you aren t familiar with the following concepts we recommend reviewing them before. We are interfacing 40kg load cell to the arduino using hx711 load cell amplifier module. First the load cell is connected to the hx711 module. Some of the load cell wires are connected together to form what is called a wheatstone bridge arrangement.

See the wiring diagram for how to connect the load cells hx711 and arduino. It reads the information from the load cell amplifies the signals and then sends it to the arduino for processing. Red wire to e black wire to e white wire to a and green wire to a. The remaining pins b and b can be used if a second load cell has to be connected to the hx711 module.

The load cell has four wires which must be connected to the first four pins of the hx711 module. In this arduino tutorial of hx711 load cell amplifier interface. This stackable shield can be used with various low output sensors like load cells. Common load cells have four wire to connect the hx711 to a.