Hey Everyone,
I just bought one of the new revisions of the XDM1041 with USB, and I gotta say, not the most intuitive thing to set up as far as the control software goes.
Figured I would share what I did in case anyone has had the same trouble as me, or to save some poor soul in the future...
1. If you get one, ignore the install instructions, they don't configure the driver correctly, and nothing works. do the following:
1.1 Install NI VISA (got it working on newest release, 21.0)
1.2 Install CH340 drivers (the serial device used in the XDM1041). Sparkfun has an article pointing to them:https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ch340-drivers/all
1.3 Install the DMMEaasyControl software
2. Next, when you open up the control software, click control->connect in the top left hand corner
3. Once it is open, choose "Via COM" instead of USB. Nothing ever pops up for USB
4. It should pop up a choice like "ASRL3(DMM) (mine is configured to be COM port 3)
5. Press ok and you should be good to go
Like other people have mentioned, software isn't the best, but it works, does data logging, ect. so hopefully this helps someone!
Also, if anyone had better luck let me know, I feel like this is a bit ridiculous