I am designing a measurement setup containing 40 loadcells to measure dynamic forces on a bundle of cables. I think I will use 4 strain gauges in a full bridge configuration in each loadcell.
The setup with only 9 loadcells connected:
I am currently thinking about the signal conditioning needed to get good results. Some specifications:
Gain: 1000, Bandwidth: below 1000HZ, Noisy environment!
Because of the noisy environment I need to amplify the signal comming from the bridge configuration as soon as possible. I was thinking about fully differential amplifiers, but signal conditioning is really not my expertise.
Below a picture of the available space for the circuitry:
Because I am not familiar with building circuits and because of time restrictions, I was thinking about gluing 2 standard breadboards to this surface:
Then insert 40 amplifiers (DIP package?) to them. Then I need to connect power for the amplifiers and for the bridge excitation and connect everything together.
My questions are:
Which amplifiers meet my requirements, and what package do I need? And is this the easiest way to do it or are there better options?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance!