Product Manual

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Win-DDE 2.19
April 03, 2007
Specifications
Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Company offers a complete line of digital weight indicators
supported by the Win-DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) server. Indicators can be interfaced to any
type of external scale device including truck scales, tank scales, and platform scales.
Up to 20 weight indicators may be connected to a single computer running Win-DDE. The
computer must be properly configured with serial ports or network hardware to allow the
connections. Windows 2000 or XP must be used if more than 10 indicators will be connected.
Numerous types of weight indicators may be used with Win-DDE.
SMA (Scale Manufacturers Association) standard protocol indicators
200 Series weight indicators
777 and 778 weight indicators
738 and 748 weight indicators
Win-DDE may be configured for communications with many other weight indicators
Indicators may be connected to a computer using common connection methods
RS232 standard serial communications ports may be used with simple cabling
TCP/IP network protocol may be used with common Ethernet network cards, hubs, and cables.
The Win-DDE Server allows Windows DDE compatible software products to obtain information
from weight indicators.
Weight string, for example "200 LB G."
Numeric weight. This allows accumulations or calculations.
Scale status, "Motion", "Over Capacity", and "Below Zero" conditions.
Additional field values may be specified.
A print capture mode allows information from an indicator printout including, ID numbers, time
and date, gross, tare and net weights to be automatically sent to an Excel Spreadsheet.
Commands may also be sent to weight indicators.
Zero Scale
Switch between LBS/KGS
Many Windows programs support DDE, including: