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PICOSTRAIN Temperature Compensation

Handling Temperature Compensation with PICOSTRAIN

Span and Offset Compensation
Six simple measurements are necessary to get the correction factors for the span compensation resistor and the offset correction.

The correction factors are calculated as
 Picostrain Temperature Compensation Equation

PICOSTRAIN Temperature Compensation Equation Part 2

These values are to be written into registers TKOffs and TKGain of the PS021. By means of this simple method a scale can be built that fulfills the quality requirements of calibrated scales.

PICOSTRAIN Temperature Compensation Chart

Example for a Software Compensation

Start with taking a loadcell that wasn't temperature compensated yet.

PICO Temp Example

The correction parameters then are:

  • TKOffs = 61.7
  • TKGain = 0.9817
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