Considerations

• The measurements in the conectors must be with the screws properly tightened, in this way we can assure a good connexion.
• The load cell has 4 basic wires, 2 of them are for power supply (+Vexc y -Vexc) and the other two for the output signal.
  
• The signal in mV, changes proportionally to the effort applied to the load cell and to his power supply.
  • E.g a 2mV sensitivity cell with 10V in Vexc, will give you 20mV for an effort equivalent to his scale.
    

How to check it

1.- Check that the auxiliar supply of the converter is the correct one, 24VDC, 230VAC

2.-Connect the power wires to the load cell to the correct connectors of the converter (+Vexc and -Vexc), leaving the output wires(+Vsignal y -Vsignal) without connecting to the converter.

• Measure the input voltage of the cell it should be about constant 10VDC.
  • If there’s no power, or it’s variable, or unstable, the module is broken.
• Measure the mV signal in the output wires without connecting (+Vsignal and -Vsignal), this signal should be proportional to the effort in the load cell, so the mV should change with the effort.
  • If the mV doesn’t change cell is broken.
  • The cell without load should give a 0mV signal, to compensate it adjust with the ZERO adjustable.
• Connect the 4 wires of the cell to the converter, if the supply and the cell signal are the porper ones.

  • Respect the polarity, a negative signal , it may display » 0 » in the output , pretending it does not work

3.- Measure the corresponding output with a multimeter. It should be proportional to the effort in the input.

• If the output is in the maximun and it doesn’t correspond with the input signal, the converter is broken.
• If the output gives a «0», check the connexions of the load cell, the polarity could be inverted.

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