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HOW THE CONVEYOR BELT LENGTH AFFECTS BELT WEIGHER ACCURACY V. K. Donis, A. E. Rachkovskii, and V. M. Sin The length of a conveyor belt is analyzed as a function of where the belt weigher is located and recommendations are made for optimizing the choice of location, taking the belt stiffness into account. Key words: belt weigher, conveyor belt length, location, error of method. In [1, 2], we consider various aspects of the choice of the location for installing belt weighers (BWs) on conveyors in which tension is ensured by automatic devices functioning on a gravitational principle, as well as screw (nonautomatic) tensioners. We also make recommendations there that the points where the BW is set up along the length of the conveyor be determined so as to minimize the effect on the accuracy of those points from belt tension oscillations as the linear load varies.Those points differ because the belt tension is constant in the transition from idling to operation under load.On the basis of the condition for minimizing the influence of the interaction of the material with the belt conveyor,the standard [3] recommends that the BW be installed no closer than four times the distance between the axes of neighboring rollers from the material infeed and discharge. Experience from designing and operating BWs, however, shows that it is insufficient to consider just the belt tension and the interaction of the material with the belt. Equally significant is the influence of the indeterminate nature of the transfer of pressure by a belt with a uniform linear load to the conveyor rollers, this being due to a third factor, the varying belt stiffness. This indeterminacy manifests itself especially on short conveyors and conveyors with a cable-reinforced rubber belt.Obviously, therefore, it is desirable to take into account the stiffness of the belt, represented as a beam on fixed supports and,accordingly, to draw up recommendations for the choice of BW location so as to minimize the error