# Reading data from TCP module

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-data-from-tcp-module/70864>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, ignition81\
**Created:** [March 9, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-data-from-tcp-module/70864 "2023-03-09T20:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjohnson0238](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@mjohnson0238](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mjohnson0238)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reading-data-from-tcp-module/70864/1 "2023-03-09T20:25:52Z")

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Good day. I am connected to a Rice Lake SCT 40-SCP Weight Controller/display, its connected to Ignition via the TCP module and reading data. Thats a good thing, the thing im sure about is the returning data, the tag value is updating really fast and gives me different values, I hope the console pic here tells a better story. These reads were done as fast I could click the execute button. Any way to make sense of this data and get only the weight and not the, what I presume to be ASCII characters?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/1/c16f8fbcbb9054768e8b94cc01cffa32cdbc0090.png)