Fluke 5500A / SC600

The 5500A is a revolutionary product that addresses a wide cross-section of your electrical calibration work load. It sources direct voltage and current, alternating voltage and current with multiple waveforms and harmonics, two simultaneous voltage outputs or voltage and current, and simulates power with phase control, resistance, capacitance, thermocouples, and RTDs. The Oscilloscope Calibration options of the 5500A provide level sine wave, fast edge, time mark, and amplitude signals for calibration of oscilloscopes up to 600 MHz.

The 5500A was designed to cover a very wide range of medium accuracy electrical measurement devices including:

• Handheld and bench multimeters
• Oscilloscopes and ScopeMeter® Test Tools
• Wattmeters
• Analog volt/ohm/amp/watt instruments
• Electronic thermometers
• Data loggers
• Strip chart recorders
• XY Recorders
• Power harmonics analyzers
• Process calibrators
• Current clamps

Power is simulated using dual dc or ac outputs, allowing you to source two voltages or voltage plus current at the same time with precise phase control for wattmeter or power harmonics analyzer calibration. And the 5500A simulates a wide range of thermocouples and RTDs for temperature calibration.

For all its capabilities, the 5500A is remarkably affordable. For about the same price you would expect to pay for a calibrator for one type of instrument, the 5500A can provide you with far more, making cost justification easy. And when you consider how your workload might change in the future, the 5500A is an even better value. So instead of buying several standards, the 5500A meets your needs with a single, compact tool.

The 5500A also features the stability, linearity and low noise performance common to all Fluke calibrators. Each unit is shipped with test data and a certificate of traceability to nationally recognized standards.

Our optional Microsoft Windows®-based 5500/CAL simplifies the documentation of your procedures, adequacy and traceability as required by ISO 9000 and other similar quality standards. It also collects and reports calibration results information and helps consistently, quickly and efficiently calibrate a wide variety of instruments. 5500/CAL is a special version of our MET/CAL® Plus Calibration Software Package designed to work with the 5500A and a Fluke 45 DMM. Because it controls instruments via an RS 232 (serial port), no IEEE interfaces are required. That means that with a 5500A, a notebook computer and 5500/CAL, your whole calibration process can be automated, from creation of procedures to execution through results data collection and reporting. Thousands of procedures are included. They can be run as is, edited to fit your specific needs, or used as the basis to create new procedures.

With the 5500A, we took great care to make the calibrator as easy as possible to use. For almost everything you do with the 5500A, your hand moves naturally from left to right. Values are entered from the calculator-style keyboard. Values can be stepped up and down in even decades (1-2-5 sequence in scope mode) with the multiply and divide keys. Specifications for any value can be viewed with the push of a button.

The display of the 5500 is rugged, bright and easy to read from all angles. Output and information is clearly displayed so instrument status can be determined easily at a glance.

• DC Voltage Range: 0 to ±1020V
• DC Current Range: 0 to ±11A
• Resistance Range: 0 to 329.999 MΩ
• AC Voltage Range: 1 mV to 1020V
• AC Current Range: 29 mA to 11A
• Capacitance Range: 0.33 nF to 1.1 mF
• DC Power Range: 109 mW to 11 kW
• AC Power Range: 109 mW to 11 kW
• Frequency Range: 0.01 Hz to 2.0 MHz