What Are Load Cells and How Do They Work?
Posted by Greg J on Apr 26th 2021
Whether you're stepping onto a bathroom scale or placing food items on a price-computing scale at your local grocery store, have you ever stopped to wonder how the scale you're using actually calculates the weight of the item you're weighing?Believe it or not, the secret to how a scale works lies in a small, internally located device known as a load cell. What is a load cell?A load cell, also known as a force transducer, is a small, mostly metal object that scales use to determine the weigh
