Installation Insert the LoadVUE CD-ROM into your drive. The installation Wizard should start up automatically. If it does not, click Start...Run…. and use the Browse button to select X:\setup.exe where X: stands for the letter of your CD-ROM drive. Click OK until the LoadVUE setup screen appears. Click Next. Select the installation folder. Click Next twice and LoadVUE will be installed. Note: LoadVUE requires the presence of Microsoft .NET Framework.
LoadVUE User Guide • 1 iLoad Digital USB Sensor Driver Installation LoadVUE installation will also install the drivers needed automatically. If you want to connect the sensors to other computers without LoadVUE however, you may need to install the drivers manually. In that case, please plug in your sensors and install the drivers following the instructions in the section Driver Installation and Operation of iLoad Digital USB Sensors. Otherwise, please skip to the next section. Loadstar Sensors, Inc.
LoadVUE User Guide • 2 Operation To run LoadVUE, click All Programs...LoadVUE or double-click on the Desktop shortcut for LoadVUE. LoadVUE will scan all installed COM ports for attached sensors. Note: Loadstar Sensors Drivers should first be installed for the sensors to be detected. The LoadVUE main window is now shown. Click Tare to zero the load on the sensors. Click Start to start reading the sensors.
LoadVUE User Guide • 3 HyperTerminal Operation of iLoad Digital USB Sensors When your iLoad Digital USB sensors is connected and correctly installed, you should see a COM port assigned to it as shown highlighted in the following screen shot of the Device Manager. You can view the Device Manager by going to the Control Panel in Windows and double-clicking on System. On the System dialog box click on the Hardware tab and then click on the Device Manager button.
LoadVUE User Guide • 4 Set up a new connection to connect to the iLoad Digital USB sensor's COM port. In the "Connect To" window, select the appropriate COM port. Loadstar Sensors, Inc. • www.loadstarsensors.
LoadVUE User Guide • 5 In the "Port Settings" dialog box, select 9600 as Bits per Second and None as the Flow Control. Click OK to accept the settings. Then click Enter a few times. You should see the sensor respond with an "A". Loadstar Sensors, Inc. • www.loadstarsensors.
LoadVUE User Guide • 6 Type O0W1 and hit . The sensor will respond with the current load on the sensor in millipounds. In the figure below the load is 2.853 pounds. Type CT0 to tare the sensor. This will zero the load (all further readings will subtract the load sensed at this point.) Type O0W0 to output the load continuously. Hitting at any time will stop outputting the readings. Loadstar Sensors, Inc. • www.loadstarsensors.
LoadVUE User Guide • 7 Basic command set The iLoad Digital USB sensor can be used through LoadVUE or LoadVUE Lite software from Loadstar Sensors. It can also be used directly as a COM port using any terminal emulation software such as HyperTerminal that is included with Windows XP. To set up HyperTerminal or other terminal emulation program to communicate with the sensor, select the appropriate COM port in the program and connect.
LoadVUE User Guide • 8 Writing Your Own Software to Communicate with iLoad Digital USB Sensors Since the iLoad Digital USB Sensors present themselves to Windows as COM ports, it is very easy to write your own program to read the sensor loads. Simply open the COM port from your application and send the string O0W1. Then read the returned string back in millipounds. We recommend the following steps: 1. 2. 3. Open the port at 9600 (baud rate is not important), N, 8, 1. Write a to the port.
