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"Extremely efficient … a problem-solving tool for a variety of situations"
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Customer testimonials demonstrate the versatility of the Fluke 289 Digital Multimeter. Whether logging mains voltages to view long term trends or checking out large motors, the meter gives fast and easy answers. That's been shown repeatedly by customers who are leaders in their fields. |
Upgrading from a Fluke 189 to a Fluke 289: a single meter for multiple uses
One of the customer reviews comes from Artofil, in the Netherlands. Artofil runs a spinning mill that produces high-performance yarns for a broad range of applications. Established in 1951, the company now has around 60 employees and is part of the Trispin Group, which employs about 150 people. A team of six technicians installs and maintains machinery internally, and they have found many benefits in the Fluke 289 over their previous (and well liked) Fluke 189. They especially liked:
- Easy and safe operation
- Extended Log function
- Clear and helpful trendcapture function
- Info button
- Separate on/off button
- Fast reading of measured values
- Analog readout by bar graph
- Size and convenience (they liked the larger display for better, more convenient and safer readings)
As Denny van Doorne, Technical Support at Artofil BV, remarked: "With just a single meter, our technical services can perform all the tasks they need."
Testing heavy industrial motors
The BENETTI GROUP is the world's leading manufacturer of machinery and tools for excavating and processing marble, granite and stone blocks. The Fluke 289 is in daily use during assembly, final testing and troubleshooting of Benetti's diamond belt saws. It is helping the company to limit costly equipment downtime for asynchronous motors, inverters and DC motors, and cutting machines. With built-in data logger and TrendCapture, the Fluke 289 helps Benetti track down elusive, intermittent problems.
The meter gives easy and accurate current and voltage measurements from DC drives, as well as current and frequency measurements from AC/low-pass filter drives using an i410 current clamp. Event Logging with MIN/MAX/AVG function simplifies tasks like investigating mains quality and monitoring equipment operating parameters.
Keep things flowing with the Fluke 289 Digital Multimeter
The Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department's Southern Region Water Reclamation Facility operates around the clock to process up to 35 million gallons per day. The treatment facility employs close to 30 people, half in operations and half in maintenance. Bill Moreno, instrument technician, has used his 289 Digital Multimeter for a variety of tasks including:
- Determining why a 500 hp motor would get to 95% of full speed and then trip out from vibration
- Checking the calibration on a valve actuator, by measuring the unit's 4-20 mA feedback signal
He has found the unique functions included with the 289 multimeter of recording, TrendCapture, low-pass filter, LoZ and min/max to be helpful. Previously he had to use a variety of tools to obtain the information he needed. "Once I got it set up it's been working like a champ," he reports. Moreno's overall impression? "This meter has been very nice; I've been pleased with it."
Fluke 289 Digital Multimeter fixes problems at a food processor
Shane Horn is a maintenance technician at a large food processing plant in Canada. The facility uses a lot of equipment – pumps, mixers, valving equipment and vacuum pumps on the process side, robotic package loaders on the finishing side, followed by carton machines, automotive case packers and conveyor systems.
With multiple skills, the maintenance people do multiple jobs. "We could be on a robot one minute, do PLC programming the next, and going to the processing side and fixing a pump that's leaking, and troubleshooting a vacuum pump or an automatic valve," says Horn. "We do our own machining, too," he adds.
After Horn tried the 289 Digital Multimeter throughout the facility for various tasks he had this to say; "having the 289 was like having another electrician working on shift with me. I was able to perform other tasks while the 289 was monitoring the circuit. I was in two places at the same time."
He has found the built-in protective features on the Fluke 289 useful, especially when they keep him from making mistakes. A few weeks ago, while working the graveyard shift, he was troubleshooting a dc motor that drives a heat shrink oven, and wanted to measure the current the armature was pulling. He went to hook the meter in series with the armature, he says, but neglected to connect the meter leads to the proper terminals on the meter. This is a classic error, but the 289 immediately gave him a warning message. "Before you even hook it up it gives you this warning, leads are connected improperly," he says. "It's a nice graveyard shift-proof meter, or for newer tradesmen, as well." And it not affected by working nights. |
