The HX-100 Hybrid Adapter provides convenient access to both analog (0–5 V DC) and digital (UART) outputs from Loadstar Sensors’ iLoad Series digital load cells. It enables users to interface easily with PCs, DAQs, PLCs, or microcontrollers, offering the flexibility to operate in USB, Analog, or Hybrid (simultaneous) modes. 

When ordering an analog iLoad Series load cell (iLoad, iLoad TR or iLoad Pro Analog) using this HX-100 board, one can obtain both of the following outputs simultaneously: 

• A digital readout on a PC for logging application via USB using the S2U Serial TTL to USB Dongle and/or
• An analog 0-5V DC signal as an input into a DAQ or a PLC. 
  
  

To get this "hybrid" output one MUST order the analog version of the iLoad Series load cell which automatically includes the analog 0-5 V Calibration. The Analog only version of the iLoad, iLoad TR and iLoad Pro load cells come with a pig-tail version of the cable with no miniB USB connector on the end. If using this version you cannot access the digital UART pins of the load cell easily nor can you connect the load cell via S2U to the USB port of a PC.

This board also gives a convenient access to the Tx Rx pins of the UART output, from a DI-100U or DI-100UHS and from an iLoad/ iLoad TR/iLaod Pro, if you want to talk to the iLoad Series load cells using an Arduino board or some other MicroController for an embedded application.