Insert value from usb scale into labview

[RavensFan]

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ignite8891 wrote:

as mentioned previously, your suggestion, does not work. I have already tried this in labview. no labview control, indicator, etc will display the value from the scale once the cursor is in that field and the send button is pressed from the scale.

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That just doesn't make sense because the LabVIEW string control should be behaving the same way you described it working in an Access form.

How does it behave if you are in other programs like Word, Excel, Notepad?

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 03-04-2010 04:20 PM

[ignite8891]

So I have found a new scale that has an rs232 cable for communication. The scale is Pelouze 4060 Digital Parcel Shipping Scale and can be bought at http://www.grabcart.com/product/ele/amfmradios/samela4030pel/Pelouze-Scale-Company-Pelouze-4030-Digi... .

The technical information can be found at http://sites.dymo.com/Support/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?MainTab=3&Tab=3&ProductID=4030(DYMO) with specific computer communication at http://sites.dymo.com/Support/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?MainTab=3&Tab=3&ProductID=4030(DYMO).

Would anyone be able to show me code that could read the weight from the port?

THANKS!!!!

[RavensFan]

Unfortunately, those links you posted don't take you to the manual.  This appears to be the correct link. http://download.dymo.com/UserManuals/4030Manual.pdf

I would suggest reading the manual, and looking athe Basic Serial Write and Read Example in the example finder to get started.  Use a termination character of carriage return (dec 13, hex 0D).  And use the string functions to pluck the number out of it.