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Wounded Bear

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6. As a former engineer, I know a few things about calibration and how measuring instruments work...

Reply to Goodheart (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 11:33 AM

Nov 2017

Strain guages and accelerometers can be tricky. If you have one of the typical $20-35 scales on the market, you probably can't expect accuracies better than 3-5%, and that might be generous.

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