
READING DATA FRON A MULTI,ETER ONTHE SERIEL POORT
Hi,
I have a VB example in my book. See below for information. Doing this in
Excel would require using something like the XMCommVBA control (download
from my homepage), and then writing the actual code to decode the serial
data stream from the multimeter. There is no standard data format for this,
so you would have to use the manual that comes with the multimeter to
determine what the data format is, then write code that converts this format
to what you need to insert in cells in your spreadsheet.
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Richard Grier (Microsoft Developer MVP)
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Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 2nd
Edition (355 pages).
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