{"id":2472,"date":"2016-06-22T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:41:54","slug":"2472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2472","title":{"rendered":"My Force Plate (order code FP-BTA) reading does not change."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the force plate was working, but stopped, the most common cause is that the Force Plate was damaged by being subjected to too much force. This can happen when students try to jump on it as hard as they can, which causes the internal load cell to buckle and fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When this happens, the electrical output of the Force Plate is pinned at either 0V or 5V, causing the reading to be stuck either at -1000 N or 4000 N (in the 3500 N range setting) or -250 N or +1000 (in the 850 N range setting).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please contact Technical Support at 888-837-6437 or support@vernier.com) for additional assistance. <br \/>For more information, see <a href=\"\/til\/19699\/\">Can my Original Force Plate (pre-November 2023) be repaired?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"551\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/image-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18676\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Post-November 2023 Force Plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/product.fp-bta._hero.001-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/product.fp-bta._hero.001-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/product.fp-bta._hero.001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/product.fp-bta._hero.001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/product.fp-bta._hero.001-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/product.fp-bta._hero.001-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pre-November 2023 Force Plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/18670\/\">Which force plate do I have?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/1934\/\">How do I replace the load cells in a Force Plate (order code FP-BTA)?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/1416\/\">Force Plate Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the force plate was working, but stopped, the most common cause is that the Force Plate was damaged by being subjected to too much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2380,4105,4106,2672],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-flat-line","tag-fp-bta-fp-din","tag-no-response-stuck","tag-unresponsive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}