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Truck Weighing

Low-cost Load Cell combined with new Truck Scale

For many years, the RTN load cell used in Schenck Process’ truck scales has been offering high quality standards. And now, according to its manufacturer, the new low-cost VDW load cell for the latest generation of DFT truck scales offers customers even more alternatives.

Depending on where truck scales are used, both technical standards and local competition may vary. The truck scale solutions deployed reflect these variations. Until now the only common denominator has been the RTN load cell.

But markets around the world are changing. Economic requirements are changing at an ever increasing speed. Demand for simpler, lower cost and electromechanical scale solutions is growing all the time. And Schenck Process has come up with the new, self-centring VDW pressure load cell for this very reason. Many of its details are based on the experiences gleaned from the long-established RTN load cells. For example, the tried-and-tested EMC concept has been transferred to the VDW load cell, which gives it strong protection from electromagnetic interference. The integrated overvoltage protection has also been adopted.

The VDW’s characteristics and output impedance have been balanced such that there is no need for subsequent corner balancing in a multiple load cell unit. The VDW load cell is a self-aligning oscillating cell that keeps transverse forces away from the cell even if the weighbridge has major horizontal deflection. The much simpler mount elements make cost-effective introduction of load possible.

The VDW load cell can be supplied for two nominal loads: 33 t and 44 t.