Celsum's Inline Housing Lets Loadcells Communicate

The ILE is a compact, robust, precision-engineered, stainless steel, EMC-shielded housing that will accept either an InCell analogue strain gauge conditioning amplifier or a DCell digital converter to provide a choice of analogue or digital outputs. With the InCell range, outputs of 0-10V, ±10V, 0-5V and 4-20mA are available, whilst, with the DCell range, direct connection of the loadcell or other strain gauge device to a computer or PLC may be achieved via RS485, CAN, CANOpen, and MODBUS buses. The DCell offers resolution of up to 1 in 400,000 and data rates of up to 500Hz, and includes programmable linearisation tables and built-in calibration.

The ILE is sealed to IP67, is only 28mm in diameter and 56mm long (excluding cable glands). The InCell or DCell conditioning amplifiers are connected via solder pads.

Jennie Carter, for Celsum Technologies, said, The ILE provides an easy-to-use, off-the-shelf housing to permit rapid assembly of the field wiring for a wide range of applications, including aerospace, transport, defence, production machinery, prototypes, research and development, safety monitoring, and laboratory instrumentation.