No, that's not enough and late as I guess it was in USA when you typed that post it is obvious you didn't think that through.
Dunno about you but at my bench is only one USB source to charge the ST42 a PC and the instant it's connected W10 says it's not recognised albeit ST42 is not in FW mode.
Shannon needs find a failsafe solution.
Or you can spend $109 on a nice LCR Tweezers from somebody that is responsive and supportive of their product, despite that it's still in its infancy. You might need to ask somebody for help installing a driver - which should automatically install - but clearly doesn't always.
That's more a failing on Windows part than the tweezers, but obviously effects the tweezer support.
100%.
Certainly with perseverance I can crack it however the CH340 driver issue is not unique to us.
Defpom had this too with his MAC however he did have a Windows PC that had CH340 drivers already installed and I am to visit this weekend with some gear for a review/teardown
and also have him update my ST42.
I mentioned I had tried on 4 W10 PC's, one a very old i3, now a i5 build that was main workstation which died in a lockdown but now repaired
, my current i7, a much more recent build, the family i3, another old build and a very recent i3 build in the hope one of which would have existing drivers that would play nice with a CH340 device.
While Shannon does provide Windows, MAC and Linux firmware obtaining a simple and reliable USB connection to ST42 is the issue without needing to jump through hoops to have it work.
You must know we do 100's of Siglent updates and help worldwide with instrument recovery so no stranger to firmware updates at all.....some of which we have reported personally found bugs, those from members here and feature requests from members and personal feature requests and most of these get into firmware releases for us all to benefit from.
Without being able to update ST42 due to these driver issues there is no possibility I can further assist Shannon and his team with further development of his tweezers that seems to me to be a terrible shame and no doubt others are also in this predicament.