USB Smart Quantum SQ-420 PAR Sensor - Apogee
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You either need a voltmeter or an arduino (or similar microcontroller with analog inputs) to use the SQ-120.
You can pick up a digital multimeter for $20-$30 at Lowes. This is the easiest option.
If you really want to use it with your PC, you'll need a microcontroller and you'll need to program it to read the analog voltage out of the sensor and display it on the PC screen. Easiest way would be to transmit out of Arduino over serial, then use a terminal emulator (Arduino IDE has one built-in, or you could use PuTTy, hyperterminal, teraterm, etc) to view the serial data stream.
You won't be able to use Apogee software without a lot of work. That's part of the reason the SQ-120 costs much less.
You can pick up a digital multimeter for $20-$30 at Lowes. This is the easiest option.
If you really want to use it with your PC, you'll need a microcontroller and you'll need to program it to read the analog voltage out of the sensor and display it on the PC screen. Easiest way would be to transmit out of Arduino over serial, then use a terminal emulator (Arduino IDE has one built-in, or you could use PuTTy, hyperterminal, teraterm, etc) to view the serial data stream.
You won't be able to use Apogee software without a lot of work. That's part of the reason the SQ-120 costs much less.
