Cost-effective general purpose carbon steel pancake load cells offer a compact design which features exceptional structural capability to withstand extraneous loads, such as torque, bending movements, and side loads combined with a high degree of accuracy for general purpose applications. Designed to measure tension/compression, these load cells have enhanced accuracies up to 0.07% and have measurement ranges from 5 lbs up to 100,000 lbs. Fatigue resistant and fatigue rated models for use with applications with extremely high cycle counts are available.