Post May 26, 2023 1 min read

Wiring the amplifier for the gas bottle scale

The very first step of weighing our gas bottle is unglamorous: preparing the amplifier board that belongs to the load cell.

The signal coming out of a load cell is tiny. The amplifier turns it into something a microcontroller can actually read.

Seven seconds of soldering and sorting wires, and the measuring chain has its first working link.

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