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Force Sensitive Resistor - Square
This is a force sensitive resistor with a square, 1.75x1.5", sensing area. This FSR will vary its resistance depending on how much pressure is being applied ...
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Two pins extend from the bottom of the sensor with 0.1" pitch making it bread board friendly. There is a peel-and-stick rubber backing on the other side of the sensing area to mount the FSR.
These sensors are simple to set up and great for sensing pressure, but they aren’t incredibly accurate. Use them to sense if it’s being squeezed, but you may not want to use it as a scale.
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- FSR
- FSR usually means full-scale range, the total span between the lowest and highest value a converter can output or measure, so error figures quoted as a percentage of FSR depend on the selected range such as 2.5 V or 5 V. In other contexts FSR can instead mean a force-sensing resistor, a component whose resistance changes with applied pressure, so check which sense is meant.
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