Interfacing DMM M-3860M to serialport communication with the PC

[Stefke35]

Hi Everyone,

Can sombody help me how I can written a monitor en datalog program for get the data from my Digital Multimeter via the serialport. It's okay if someone here written an console application or an short GUI application. I will prefer VB.NET, C#.NET, C++. How can I representation this dataformat, what can I use for store it, array, ptr what?

Here in attachment show you the dataformat :

Communication settings
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Baudrate : 9600 baud
Character code : 7-bit ASCII
Parity : none
Stop-Bits : 2

Dataformat Settings
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Example:
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[Jan Axelson]

See my COM Port terminal example here:

http://www.lvr.com/serport.htm

[Stefke35]

See my COM Port terminal example here:

http://www.lvr.com/serport.htm

Jan,

I don't known how I can store the data in the dataframe. How can I write this in a functie?

[Jan Axelson]

In my example, see the DataReceived function.

[Stefke35]

In my example, see the DataReceived function.

Jan,

I use PowerBasic for Windows

[Jan Axelson]

You can store data received from a serial port in the same way you can store any data. Put it in a variable, write it to a file, etc.