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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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    Web applications, or "Apps", are all the rage. Running on a smart phone, they represent an intersection of the internet and a handheld touch panel. They provide a combination of fun and functionality - many of most popular Apps are games. They are fast and easy to use, contain a lot of intelligence around a specific task, and deliver fast answers. For example, the Carbon Footprint Calculator asks you to enter miles driven, airline trips taken and electrical / natural gas consumption, then quickly shows how many trees are required to offset your presence on the planet.

     

    It turns out that Fluke has been packaging Apps for years in the form of specialty Digital Multimeters. They are fast and easy to use, and contain a ton of intelligence around Ohm’s Law, E= I x R. The smarts reside in firmware rather than software, and the platform is a rugged handheld DMM versus a phone. However, the outcome is the same - fast answers.

    Here are four applications matched with a task-specific DMM to deliver the power of a modern App:

    1. For Predictive Maintenance, the 289 Industrial Logging Multimeter offers 0.025% basic DC accuracy, 100 kHz bandwidth and graphical display to support sophisticated logging and Trend Capture.
    2. For HVAC repair, the 116 HVAC DMM measures temperature and micro amps, plus offers selectable low input impedance often required with HVAC system components.
    3. For Process Calibration, the 789 ProcessMeter sources and measures 4 to 20 mA control signals, while simultaneously reading in mA and % of span. The meter provides Loop Power, manually or automatically steps in 25% of span, and includes a 250 ohm HART resistor.
    4. For automotive troubleshooting, the 88 Series V Automotive Meter offers millisecond pulse width measurements for fuel injectors, inductive pickup for RPM readings and 20 A current measurement for modern automotive applications.

     

    Audition one of these Fluke Apps today to see the power and speed they can bring to your daily workload.

     

    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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