Rice Lake TransAct 5.0 - Installation & Operation Manual User Manual

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The sixteen rightmost columns (with one character per column) are the ASCII or
printable representation of the data. Any unprintable characters are replaced by a period
in these columns.

If the serial port settings are correct, you should be able to read the majority of the data
on the right side of the screen.

Weight, Tare, Polarity, Units, Gross/Net, Motion, In Range

These fields are extracted from the serial data using the scale stream format for the
indicator specified in the setup screen. If any question marks appear in these boxes then
you probably have an incorrect indicator type specified.

Events

This column of radio buttons show the serial port events.

Errors

This column of radio buttons show the serial port errors. The error count will also be
displayed next to the word "Errors". None of these buttons will light up and the error
count will be zero if your serial port settings are correct.

Done button

Clicking this button will discontinue testing and return you to the setup screen.

Pause button

Clicking this button will turn off data from the serial port. The caption on the button will
change to "Continue".

Continue button

Clicking this button will turn on data from the serial port. The caption on the button will
change to "Pause".

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