HI, First check whether your PC has a serial port or not. If not then you have to use an USB to RS232 converter cable. Install the driver from the cd of USB-2-RS232 converter into your PC. It’s provide a virtual serial port to use. Now connect RS232 part to your device and USB part to your PC. Power up the weight machine and open a hyper-terminal or any other serial port utility or software provided by the machine vendor and start the communication. Configure serial port properties according the user manual of your weight machine.
To know about serial port settings read the full post. Hope it’ll help you. Have a nice day!!!
Keywords: Serial port communication in Windows 7 using Hyper-terminal and Putty, Putty, Hyper terminal in Windows 7 Some times you need to access serial port of your PC/LAPTOP to perform some actions like if you want to connect a GSM modem or if you are an Embedded systems programmer then to access program or interface your micro-controllers to your system. If you are performing these tasks on either Windows or Linux then you will requires some program that can communicate with your hardware and system. In the old days, Windows used to be provided Hyper terminal but now from Windows Vista they don’t provide such a tool, could not understand the reason though.