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News Release from: Celsum Technologies | Subject: Digital strain card
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 August 2004
DSC Is At The Heart Of New Health Scales
Celsum Technologies is supplying the new generation DSC digital strain card for the new VideoMedia coin-operated personal weighing machine, designed and manufactured by Avisis.
Celsum Technologies is supplying the new generation DSC digital strain card for the new VideoMedia coin-operated personal weighing machine, designed and manufactured by Avisis The VideoMedia Scale is all-electronic and has an integral computer with a full-colour TFT touch-screen display which can be connected to the customer's network to allow live promotional broadcasts via the screen whilst not in use
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The New Generation DSC digital strain card is a miniature; state-of-the-art digital amplifier manufactured using the latest surface mount technology.
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Mr Paul Roche, Managing Director of Avisis Plc, said, "Celsum Technologies provides the DSC in a package already wired and pre-programmed to allow the amplifier to be easily mounted in the VideoMedia Scale during production.at our recently-refurbished UK factory".
Said Mr Roy Carter, MD of Celsum Technologies, "We are delighted that the New Generation DSC has been selected for the VideoMedia Scale.
The DSC provides a convenient, versatile and reliable means of getting information from an analogue strain-gauge device and into digital format with the minimum of fuss.
The DSC may be programmed to give reading speeds of up to 400Hz, and resolution to 18 bits (1 part in 400,000). Request a free brochure from Celsum Technologies ...
Multi-step linearization and temperature compensation is on-board, and the output may be programmed to be in engineering units if desired.".
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