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Amy_Fluke
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Atop a luscious, 500 meter hilltop in Tuscany lies the fortified village of Montalcino.  Once a stopover on the main path from Florence to Rome, today it is home to one of the world’s great wines, Brunello de Montalcino.  Yes, the soil and climate are perfect for growing Vitis Vinifera.  Yes, the old Sangiovese vines are well established.  But the big difference is expertise.  After centuries of winemaking, and nearly 200 years focusing on Brunello, these artisans have forgotten more about fine wine than most countries will ever know.  They produce a rich, dark, leathery red wine with a complex aftertaste that will last until your next birthday.  These wines are best sampled using a modern-day tourist contrivance, the Brunello Bus.

 

Atop a 600 foot plateau in Everett, Washington sits the Fluke Corporation.  It, too, straddles a major avenue of commerce, as Boeing makes 777s and 787s next door.  The glacial till left over from the last ice age does not support much besides Douglas Fir and Red Alder, and the persistent drip irrigation from the sky favors indoor activities. Here, the locals have developed a deep expertise in Digital Multimeters, DMMs.  Beginning with the MIT root stock of John Fluke, Sr. in 1948, then cultivated by grads of Stanford and the University of Washington, Fluke has developed a deep commitment to durable, real-world Test and Measurement equipment.  They conceptualize, design, test, build and service a diverse collection of DMMs for connoisseurs who appreciate and use fine test tools.

 

From the Fluke cellars, here are the latest releases of the 2009 vintage:

  • DMM de 289, TRMS Electronics Logging Multimeter; Best-in-Test award winner has all the capability of a top-end handheld DMM plus a high resolution graphical display to  support logging and TrendCapture
  • DMM de 233, Remote Display Digital Multimeter;  Ultimate crowd-pleaser, voted coolest meter…ever. Wireless communication allows the display to be up to 30 feet from the measurement point.
  • DMM de 28 II, TRMS Industrial Multimeter; IP 67 waterproof & dustproof, completely sealed for use in harsh environments. Throw it in a wine-vat and play go-fish. It’ll still work.

 

And yet, these exciting new flavors still have to beat the long-term success of this all-around leader:

    • DMM de 87-V, Industrial Multimeter; The ultimate “real-man’s” meter.

     

  • To sample one of these vintages, see your Fluke distributor today.

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    Amy_Fluke
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    The environmental test team at Fluke tries to break new products during development.  Here, from this fun-loving, happy-go-luck crew, are their top-ten torture chamber favorites:

     

    10.  Let’s drop the packaged product, on all faces and corners - 24 drops - from 1 meter onto a hardwood floor.
    9.  What the heck, let’s do it to the unpackaged unit, too - 8 drops - at storage temperature extremes of -400C to +600C!
    8.  Why not subject the unit to vibration, up to 30 G’s, for 30 minutes on three perpendicular axes?
    7.  Bombard the unit with electromagnetic fields and radio frequency emissions per IEC 61326-1 to see if we can get the readings to change!
    6.  Let’s flex the outboard end of the test leads at least 10,000 times to 90 degrees, even though the standard only calls for a flex to 45 degrees.
    5.  While we’re at it, let’s flex the inboard end of the leads, and test the terminals, for 10,000 cycles, too!
    4.  Let’s run the product at temperatures down to -40oC and up to 60oC and try to get the readings to go out of spec.  Add humidity, up to 92% at up to 40oC, and run the tests again!
    3.  Dude, let’s apply peak transients of 12 to 18 kV on the input circuits!
    2.  Let’s wrap the whole unit in foil and subject it to electrostatic discharge of at least 20 kV.
    1.  And finally, let’s push 30 kVA into the front end, while switching through the measurement functions, to make sure any failures are contained within the instrument case.

    When the test team can no longer get a unit to fail, it can be released to production.  Why go to all this trouble?  So that when you take your Fluke meter into the hazards and hassles of the real world, the last thing you need to worry about is whether your meter still works.

     

     

    Bio: Rick Pirret recently retired from Fluke following 30 years in product design and marketing. Previously, he was with Bell Labs for 10 years in product and facility design. Rick studied mechanical engineering at Cornell and Stanford, and completed an MBA at Seattle University. Over the years, hobbies have included scuba diving, white water canoeing, flying, motorcycling, and bicycling. More recently, Rick likes to be outdoors in the Cascades Mountains or on-track in a BMW

     

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    Amy_Fluke
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    Introducing three new Fluke products. The new Fluke Ti32 delivers the first industrial grade, high performance thermal imager for industrial and electrical applications. The result is strikingly crisp, detailed images that, blended with our patented IR-Fusion®, are sure to make a lasting impression. The Fluke 233 wireless remote display digital multimeter with removable magnetic display allows you to be 30ft away from the measurement point. The new Fluke 27 II and 28 II digital multimeters define a new standard for operating in rugged, harsh conditions with the features and accuracy to troubleshoot most electrical problems. The new Fluke 20 Series Multimeters are built to work in the toughest environments. See them all in action here.
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    Amy_Fluke
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    For anyone interested in electronics design, get a humorous and
    educational review of the new 233 Remote True-RMS Display
    Multimeter with Australian host, Dave Jones:
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