Wireless Shackle Load Pins Morehouse Instrument Company is proud to announce that its new Wireless Shackle Load Pins were recently featured in the January 11th issue of Hoist Magazine, the leading publication for the lifting and rigging industry. The article notes that the Wireless Shackle Load Pins have “5x overload capacity and IP67 ingress protection […]
Loose Bolts & Torque Control Imagine if one of the one hundred and fifty-plus car engine bolts is under-torqued; it loosens over time and eventually destroys the engine. What if the bolts are under-torqued in an airplane assembly and become loose mid-flight? What if those bolts were to the exit door, which blew off mid-flight, […]
Voltage Excitation Applied to a Load Cell: Introduction Most load cells are force sensors that receive a voltage (excitation) from a regulated power source (usually a digital indicator or signal conditioner) and send back a low voltage signal (signal) when force is applied. Most load cells are designed to operate at 10V, and many will […]
