What I would like to do is a) save the strain gauge reading in its unchanged form, something like a hex value, this will be easier for me to save, b) understand these settings so that I can transform that hex value into a real value (and vice versa), c) save these settings to that I will have a record of the calibration constants over time. In this way, I will be able to tell if a big change occurs between calibrations. I will be recording the strain guage readings over a period of a few seconds and storing the data. Instead of storing the float data I would like to store a hex value. The application has historically kept a record of the calibration constants and I would like to continue this and understand how they are related to the unprocessed value. Chapter 17 gives a good description of the setup process but not what is happening "under the hood." I want to make use of the features of the strain guage module but also want to understand how these calculated values are used to process the data.
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