Wasted $400 on a fancy wireless load cell system that never worked right

I bought one of those Load Link wireless load cells from a company called CraneMetrics back in March for a big job in Portland. Hooked it up to my app on site and the signal kept dropping every 20 feet, made the whole lift take twice as long. Ended up sending it back and getting a refund but lost like 3 days of work in the process. Has anyone else had trouble with those wireless systems or am I just cursed with bad tech?

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jesser7915d ago

Oh man, "signal kept dropping every 20 feet" - that sounds about right for my luck with tech too. I swear my phone loses connection if I look at it wrong, so I can only imagine what a wireless load cell would do to me.

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abbyg1415d ago

Haha totally @jesser79, I had a buddy who tried one of those wireless load cells for his trailer and he literally had to stand next to the trailer with his phone in one hand like some kind of relay antenna. He'd be like "okay moving now, hold the phone up higher, NOPE signal's gone again." It was honestly funny to watch but also super frustrating for him. He ended up just going back to a wired setup after like two weeks, said it wasn't worth the hassle. Made me glad I just stuck with a cheap old school scale that doesn't need to talk to my phone at all.