15 june 2020
Having many years of experience of more than 10 years as a developer and manufacturer of weighing systems, we want to draw your attention to the errors that customers encountered when buying and installing truck scales.
When purchasing a truck scale, the director, engineer or person in charge pays special attention to:
At first glance it will seem to you that the above items are enough for the right choice of truck scales. But to choose the size of the truck scale platform and load capacity is only the first step to the correct selection of scales.
When you are passionate about the price-quality offer, you miss a number of important details, without which the scales you bought will not bring the desired result. It is very important to pay attention to such points as:
– overload
– lightning strike
– power surges
– exposure to chemicals or moisture
– incorrect installation
– vibrations
– shock loads
These reasons can lead to zero drift, unstable data transmission or its absence at all.
To reduce the accuracy of the readings leads to trimming the length of a standard strain gauge cable, since its resistance is taken into account in the total resistance indicated in the strain gauge passport.
In cases where the load cell is installed in the wrong place, replacement or maintenance will become a problem, which in turn will lead to a delay in the weighing process. The company will incur losses from downtime of weighing equipment.
The set of factors that affect the load cell failure is difficult to determine for yourself. We strongly recommend contacting a service factory representative who can determine the cause and find solutions to resolve the problems.
The place of installation of the scales and the choice of execution of the foundation are integral parts of the installation of truck scales and must be treated with all severity!
Important factors for the installation of scales and the choice of foundation design are:
– type of coating at the place of installation of the balance? (soil, asphalt, bulk soil)
– the depth of groundwater?
– is there a foundation from old scales?
If such moments were missed when choosing a truck scale, to correct errors in the process of already installed scales, entails both monetary costs and time costs. Depending on the mistakes made by unqualified representatives, they can incur very serious losses for the client’s company.
As for the platform itself, one should not neglect the presence of chippers and the option of fixing the platforms. Indeed, in bad weather, a run on a truck scale platform does not exclude a loss of control, and the car will simply fly off the platform. The coupling of the platform modules should not be performed “honestly”. Safety in the weighing process is the main thing to think about.
Truck scales from the “Kiev Weight Plant” are designed taking into account all the necessary structural elements that bring the desired result to our customers.
Protection against unauthorized access.
In today’s world, unfortunately, our customers are faced with a rather unpleasant experience of unauthorized access. And their need is to avoid such cases. For this, our company “Kiev Weight Plant” offers customers protection that will protect the entire weighing process from intruders. But the possibility of installing such protection must be specified at an early stage in the selection of weights. Since the ability to install depends on a few points. In more detail: “how much companies lose on inaccurate weighing of scales”, what you need to pay attention to when choosing a truck scale)
In order to protect the company from losses, itself – from unprofessionalism, as well as to convince the management of the need to listen to your expert opinion, look at the photo report with images of auto scales that your (and our) competitors have already incorrectly installed in themselves.
You will find out what threatens the company with the rejection of important “trifles” when acquiring weighing equipment. And why it is so important, contact the specialists of the manufacturer when choosing and installing truck scales.
This is what the erroneous choice of a truck scale manufacturer can lead to. As a result, you buy a platform that is unstable. Which, in turn, led to the deflection of the platform for a short lifetime of the balance. (The photo shows how one of the edges of the platform rose up)
In this photo, you can see what threatens the unskilled work on the manufacture of not only the foundation but also the platform itself. The elevations were not sustained, which led to the deflection of the platform. And in such cases, the balance shows incorrect weighing data. Since the platform is not on all sensors. Incorrectly made foundation – additional mortgages, which were added during violations of technical requirements for the manufacture and installation of automotive scales
And again, the wrong decision is that “I will do everything myself.” If you decide to make the foundation yourself – this is your right. But we strongly recommend weighing the pros and cons. Since otherwise it will lead to a loss of money! In this photo, the ramp was made with a violation of elevations, which in the process of using the scales leads to failure of the tensometric equipment and the danger of movement in bad weather by calling on the truck weighing platform.
