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Convert an Electronic Bathroom Scale Into A Shipping Scale for <$1

Step 5Wiring The Guts

Wiring The Guts
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Remove the display circuit card, switch and battery holder together.

You should see the display is wired to the load cell with 4 wires. Make a drawing of which color wire goes to which connection on both the card and the load cell.

We will replace this short piece of wire with the long telephone cable. Wire color is not important but connecting the same points is.

Dress the cable to the desired length. Solder one end of the new cable to the wires of the load cell. Remembering to feed the cable out through one of the holes in the base. I used the battery holder hole. You can use duct tape to make sure the wire does not touch the beams.
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