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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Strain Gauge is Set Up ... Now What?

Last week, Lorenzo showed us how to set up the strain gauge on our testing system. Today, Chirag Patel goes a step further and shows how to easily calibrate the strain gauges for testing ....

1 comment:

Mohammad N Islam said...

it would be great if we could see the parameters when it was set in the fields. The resolution is so poor that we could not see anything. Also, it would be very helpful to talk about the full scale range in the transducer setting. What value one should put or what does it actually mean? Is it related to the the particular strain gauge?
Thank you for posting this video.