In addition to collecting incoming data, WinWedge can send commands or data strings to your serial devices. For instance, you can prompt your device for data at a timed interval, send acknowledgement strings, or even easily create hot keys and buttons that collect and transfer the most recent device reading.

WinWedge transfers data to other applications by either entering it in the highlighted text field or cell (just like typing on a keyboard) or by passing the data using DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange). The keystroke method is extremely simple. Serial data just "pops" into your application as if it were being typed in! This method is the most popular as it is so easy to use. The DDE method enables to you to transfer data in the background and create extremely sophisticated data acquisition and device control interfaces. WinWedge also lets you add additional keystrokes or DDE commands and, if your application supports it (like Excel) you can even automate real-time data charting and analysis.

No. Instead of a demo version of WinWedge, we offer a full 90-day money back guarantee. During the first three months,  our customers can use and evaluate WinWedge while having access to our free and unlimited technical support. This allows them to quickly and efficiently setup WinWedge with their unique applications and determine if WinWedge is the right tool.

WinWedge fully buffers all input so your data will never be "lost" or inaccurate. It is in use in thousands of mission critical applications worldwide. Since the first SoftwareWedge for DOS and for Windows was released, it has proven itself completely reliable in many thousands of applications world wide.

Yes. It is extremely easy to use! The configuration process is fully menu driven and has complete, context sensitive, on-line help. You can easily customize all input to your exact specifications. Once you see how easy it is to use WinWedge, you will never again take data readings by hand!

WinWedge Professional has many advanced features and benefits, including the ability to collect data from networked and internet devices (not just serial!), log data directly to a disk file, and allows for more powerful parsing techniques and math functions. WinWedge Professional also bundles together many of our popular software products into one package, including TCP-Wedge, TCP-Com, File-Wedge, and more.

WinWedge and TCP-Wedge will work with ANY Windows program and all versions of Windows including Vista and Windows 7. The Pro version offers support for a far wider range of serial devices including sophisticated industrial and laboratory instruments. Both Winwedge Standard and Professional are small applications that can run with minimal system requirements.

WinWedge supports ANY instrument that you can plug into the serial port (RS232, RS422 or RS485) of your PC. The following is a list of just some of the many instruments that WinWedge can communicate with:

Auto ID Equipment 
Balances
Bar Code Scanners 
Bore Gauges 
Bubble Surfactometers* 
Calipers
Cash Handling Machines*
Check Weighers 
CMMs* (coordinate measuring machines)
Coin Counters*
Communications Equip.*
Conductivity Meters 
Colorimeters* 
Currency Counters*
Densitometers* 
Data Loggers* 
Digitizers* 
Electronic Indicators 
Ethernet-Based Data * 
Flow Meters
Friction Peel Testers* 
Force Gauges 
Gauges 
GPS Receivers 
Gyroscopes 
Hardness Testers 
Ion Meters
Internet-Based Data*
Laboratory Instruments*
Lead Testers 
Magnetic Stripe Readers
Measuring Tools 
Medical Devices* 
Micrometers 
Moisture Analyzers* 
Motor Controllers* 
Particle Counters 
Plate Readers
PBX Systems* 
pH Meters*
PLCs* 
Pressure Gauges
Process Control Sensors
Quality Control Instruments
Radiation Counters 
RFID Equipment* 
RS232 output devices 
Sensors 
Scales
Spectrometers* 
Spectrophotometers* 
Telephone Systems* 
Temperature Sensors 
TCP/IP- Based Data* 
Tensile Machine<
Thermocouples 
Thickness Gauges 
Titrators* 
Weighers
…….and many, many more...

....any RS232, RS485 or TCP/IP 
device and many USB devices.

*These devices may require the WinWedge Professional version

WinWedge is essentially a user configurable serial device driver. It allows you to input data from a device connected to a serial port on your PC directly into any other Windows program. For example, a customer might use WinWedge to input scale data into a web form or shipping software by pressing a hot key. Another customer might use WinWedge to collect readings from a force gauge into Excel and generate a real-time visualization of the data. The possibilities are nearly endless and we provide free and unlimited support to help you tailer WinWedge to your own needs.