Interface fatigue-rated load cells provide safe overload, low moment sensitivity

Durham Instruments carries Interface's Model 1000 series of load cells.

Durham Instruments carries Interface Force Measurement’s selection of industrial test and measurement solutions, available to Canadian businesses. This includes the Model 1000 series of fatigue-rated load cells, for example, which provides 300 per cent safe overload, extremely low moment sensitivity of 0.1 per cent per inch, and higher fatigue life.

Users get up to 100 million fully rendered cycles from each load cell in this series, with numerous variants and configurations.

Low deflection, shunt calibration

These fatigue-rated load cells are highly beneficial to applications in a wide range of industries. Durham Instruments recommends them highly for use in the general manufacturing, aerospace, automation, food-processing, forestry, medical, military, mining, packaging, power-generation, alternative-energy, and transportation sectors and in research and development.

The Interface team inspects and tests the gauge sensors in these load cells and then certifies them to meet its own stringent standards Every load cell can measure a wide variety of weights, ranging from one to 1,000,000 pounds. Other major features of Model 1000 series include the following:

• 0015 per cent per degree Celsius of temperature effect on output
• Barometric compensation
• Capacities from 1¼ to 225 kilonewtons
• Eccentric-load compensation
• Low deflection
• Optional E74 NIST traceable tension and compression calibration
• Performance of up to 0.03 per cent
• Proprietary Interface temperature-compensated strain gauges
• Shunt calibration

The manufacturer also offers options for second-bridge, third-bridge, and overload protection. The base is highly recommended, and other options include connector protection, standardized output, a transducer electronic sheet, custom calibration, multiple bridges, special threads, a dual diaphragm, a special temperature range, various cable lengths, and a connector added to the cable.

Among the connector options are an integral cable of three metres, a PT02E-10-6P bayonet connector, or a PC04E-10-6P screw-type connector. There are also various accessories, including a mating connector, mating cable, loading hardware, and other instruments.

The Model 1000 series of fatigue-rated load cells is not the only load-cell lineup that Interface manufactures. Models 1010, 1020, and 1032 are alternate series of low-profile, fatigue-rated cells, while other popular Interface units include the 1600 Gold Standard and the WTS 1200 model.

To learn more, contact Durham Instruments.

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