Let me say that they are two different things.
Load cell amplifier ic.
There would be four single strain gauge load cells hooked up to a combinator and an amplifier to give you your weight reading.
Here the two scheme diagram of load cell amplifier circuit.
You may built your own load cell amplifier to get the lower cost.
Load cell amplifier using amp04.
A load cell signal conditioner is an integral component of any weighing system.
By connecting the amplifier to your microcontroller you will be able to read the changes in the resistance of the load cell and with some calibration you ll be able to get very accurate weight measurements.
Brt hx760 load cell amplifier circuit is a very simple low cost weight sensor signal conditioning circuit module.
Real scale instruments for load cells are often less than 2 ppm k.
Load amplifiers increase the signal generated by strain gauge sensors and allow for further processing and monitoring.
Flexible connection to most load cells pressure or strain gauges over a wide range of sensitivities.
Let s go for pros and cons.
It accepts 20mv differential signal input and converts it into 4 20ma and 0 10v output in linearity.
Integrated design small size easy to use.
Load cell amplifier our intelligent strain gauge bridge amplifier is a compact stackable microprocessor based unit specifically designed to control and monitor process applications.
It is very easy to be embedded into industrial devices.
I ve found some interesting schematic of load cell amplifier.
Reference circuit for the hx711 a common load cell amplifier ic referring to figure 5 above for the commonly used hx711 load cell amplifier the filtering capacitor is placed in between the two wires carrying the output signal.
As we know load cell amplifier is pretty expensive with fair price range of 100 300 usd.
Load cells connected to combinator and hx711 amplifier this is the same layout that you would find in say your home scale.
The filtering capacitor is highlighted in the color black between the two signal lines s and s.
The pin 5 can be used to adjust the output to be within this range if driven from an zero ohm source.
The 100 ppm k gain drift of the circuit will make a 0 01kg drift for a 100kg bed and patient if the temperature changes 1 k.
The sparkfun load cell amplifier is a small breakout board for the hx711 ic that allows you to easily read load cells to measure weight.
The hx711 load cell amplifier is used to get measurable data out from a load cell and strain gauge.