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The system consists of two physically isolated plates, each with four full bridge strain beams, a precision analog front end, and a 2000 Hz acquisition unit. A microcontroller-based hardware trigger synchronizes force data with video capture. Custom host software implements adaptive jump phase recognition and calculates peak force (PF), concentric impulse, jump height, rate of force development (RFD), and asymmetry index (ASI). Validation included static mass measurements in 14 participants, low-load static calibration (5.0\u201330.0 kg), free-fall impulse validation (7.00 to 31.32 N\u00b7s), 240 fps high-speed video cross validation of flight time, ecological-validity comparison with published AMTI-based force-plate data, and 48 h test\u2013retest reliability assessment. Static mass measurement showed a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 1.01% and a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9992, while low-load testing confirmed excellent linearity (R2&gt;0.996) and minimal absolute error (mean absolute error = 0.34 kg) at lighter weights. Dynamic impulse validation yielded R2&gt;0.997 and MAPE &lt; 3%. Flight time agreement with high-speed video was within \u00b110 ms. Test\u2013retest reliability was excellent for concentric impulse (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = 0.997) and jump height (ICC = 0.987), and good for PF (ICC = 0.962) and rate of force development at 100 ms (RFD100ms) (ICC = 0.883). The physically isolated dual-plate architecture effectively captured bilateral force differences, although the ASI demonstrated moderate reliability (ICC = 0.748), likely reflecting the inherent biological variability in bilateral coordination. The ecological-validity comparison further indicated that the macroscopic kinetic outputs of the proposed system fell within the expected physiological and biomechanical ranges reported for adult CMJ testing. 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