From Loadstar Sensors, Inc.

Since the iLoad Digital USB Load cells present themselves to Windows as COM ports, it is very easy to write your own program to read the load cells loads. Simply open the COM port from your application and send the string O0W1. Then read the returned string back in millipounds.

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