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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: Soertier on November 02, 2012, 08:43:21 am

Title: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Soertier on November 02, 2012, 08:43:21 am
Has anyone measured Flukes 15B or 17B's burden voltage on any current range? There's no mention about on the manual provided on Fluke's website.
I am especially interested in the 4A and 10A range.
Title: Re: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Rerouter on November 02, 2012, 09:15:26 am
From the manual, get the shunt resistance, and use ohms law?
Title: Re: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Salas on November 02, 2012, 09:17:12 am
My 17B shows 0.05 Ohm in A range, 2.23 Ohm in mA range, 101.3 Ohm in uA range for series resistance at the sockets. Each of its supplied leads shows 0.05 Ohm. Measured with MS8218 delta zeroed. From there maybe you can estimate.
Title: Re: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Soertier on November 02, 2012, 09:20:21 am
From the manual, get the shunt resistance, and use ohms law?
I don't think that's specified in the manual.
Title: Re: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Soertier on November 02, 2012, 09:34:01 am
My 17B shows 0.05 Ohm in A range, 2.23 Ohm in mA range, 101.3 Ohm in uA range for series resistance at the sockets. Each of its supplied leads shows 0.05 Ohm. Measured with MS8218 delta zeroed. From there maybe you can estimate.

Thanks Salas!
So roughly it would be 0.2V on the 4A range (0.05V per Amp ) and 0.4V on the 10A range (0.04V per Amp)?  Of course excluding the leads.
Title: Re: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Wytnucls on November 02, 2012, 09:52:18 am
Have a look at this:
Fluke 17b multimeter and DC Current Measurement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei34lIp5qSs#)
Title: Re: Fluke 15 & 17 Burden Voltage
Post by: Soertier on November 02, 2012, 10:36:09 am
Have a look at this:
Fluke 17b multimeter and DC Current Measurement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei34lIp5qSs#)

Interesting, actually it was me who contacted that user and asked him about current measuring capabilities, but I did not check his channel after that.
So if I do another rough estimate  with 0.040 Ohm on the 4A range it would be 0.16V (0.04V per Amp). This is similar to Fluke 289 (burden voltage according to Fluke's manual).