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Good multimeter for Industrial use at work (Fluke alternatives)
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BeBuLamar:

--- Quote from: Fungus on December 29, 2022, 05:22:49 pm ---calibration != adjustment

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I know but I think he meant he would check the calibration and not calibrate. You would need a calibrator that can communicate with the Fluke 87V via ultrasonic.
py-bb:

--- Quote from: MerlijnD on December 22, 2022, 10:17:22 pm ---I cannot explain the why in much regard.

But this is for us the best time to look into alternatives because:

Fluke's double measurement on 1 display is extremely expensive but the most used/requested feature for vfds and or generator mains failure frequency verification etc.
The fact that we keep extra stock and loan sets when their main equipment is being calibrated. (All our current loan sets are old and broken and some of the engineers main fluke stuff is breaking down as well. Current replacement stock in-office is zero).

I've seen a couple people mention Yogokawa; we use alot of their equipment in office and in other parts of our business.

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What I'd do is try it. I'm glad you want to move away from Fluke as this might make them "work harder". As much as I'd love to see that change another "general rule" applies:

All changes disrupt something. Just generally this is true. For example muscle memory could have volts on the meter where amps is on the new ones (obviously a bad thing) - I use two differently coloured meters for this reason.

What I'd recommend you do is some research, buy say 1, 2 or 3 of them and dish them out and ask your team to use them concurrently - this may slow them down a little bit, see if that can be mitigated at least partially, get them on board.

Some have said here that they'd be 'upset' if not given Fluke gear to use, if there's a chance that the people you enlist to help you evaluate new meters could be seen as "the bastards that OKed the new meters" I'd tread carefully, but I've only ever rarely seen such adversarial relationships between managers and work teams. 
tooki:

--- Quote from: BillyO on December 29, 2022, 04:16:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: jonpaul on December 29, 2022, 09:21:44 am ---I  will share my notes, calibration, tests and reviews.

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I'm not sure there is much calibration you are going to be able to do on the 87V, unless you have access to a Fluke 87V calibrator.

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The 87V service manual has full calibration instructions. The only equipment required is a Fluke 5500A calibrator or equivalent. It provides references only; the calibration is performed using just the multimeter’s controls.
--- Quote from: BeBuLamar on December 29, 2022, 05:36:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fungus on December 29, 2022, 05:22:49 pm ---calibration != adjustment

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I know but I think he meant he would check the calibration and not calibrate. You would need a calibrator that can communicate with the Fluke 87V via ultrasonic.

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As best I can tell, ultrasonic is a unidirectional data output. That is, if the 87V even has it. The original 87 user manual mentions ultrasonic output only in passing, and the service manual makes no mention of it. For the 87V, neither the user manual nor service manual make any mention of it.

In both cases, looking at the schematics of both the original 87 and the 87V, there’s no way to receive ultrasonic, so at most it exists as an output only, for use in production testing or something.
Ugur:
Beha Amprobe is a Fluke affiliate brand. Their prices are more affordable than Fluke and are of Fluke quality.
tooki:
While I have no issues with their build quality, the models I’ve tested had anemic continuity beepers, not the fabulous ones in Fluke meters.
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