Load indicator with digital readout
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A VEHICLE-fitted load indicator system with a digital readout that can be mounted on the dashboard is offered by Precision Loads Ltd of Bingley, West Yorks.
Developed originally in the USA for the logging industry, it has been sold in Europe for the last four years. Precision Loads claim an accuracy of one per cent.
The equipment consists of four load cells seen here fitted to a Magirus 6x4. Two are fitted underneath the rear trunnions with two more underneath the tipping ram support place, these are connected to a digital readout and the whole syst runs off a 12v reducer.
Precision Loads plan to h ticket printout version avail by September, and the syst can be fitted equally well to units under the fifth wheel I accurate drive axle loading well as the suspension of trailers.
Four load cells and a disp unit which reads in ten kilogramme graduations, ci £2,800 excluding VAT and t about half a day to fit. Precision Loads Ltd, Croft Avenue, Crossflatts, Bingle W Yorks. (Tel: 0274 567887