Surface plate height gauge adapter for dial indicator holding

[tonyfoale]

Tony, I found the same issue:
I tried several years ago to get one for the Mititoyo vertical mill quill digital indicator, and had zero luck finding a cable that could interface to some affordable SPC reader. I had only tried eBay.

this the only offering I have been able to find worldwide. ebay.com 252491415529

Yes I could get some micro controller, but then I'd be spending many hours horsing around with software code, and that's not really how I want to spend my time these days.

i can understand that, but there is a lot of info on the net, as someone has worked out how to read each format. many use an Arduino as the interface twix PC and instrument. I find it amazing that most manufacturers fit the data port but provide no help with using it. A lost marketing opportunity I guess.

Even finding a quadrature decoder/counter off the shelf requires a micro controller to read and transfer the data.

That is so simple it is almost trivial. When I get my new encoder I intend to post something here including the Aduino code (Sketch as they call it)