Compared to more traditional calibrators designed to calibrate a certain type of instrument, the 5500A sets the standard of a whole new class of multi-product calibrator covering an unprecedented range of dc and low frequency electrical calibration workload. When you team it with the optional 5500/CAL Calibration Software, the 5500A offers a complete, powerful and flexible solution for calibration documentation and reporting according to today's quality standards like ISO 9000.
The standard 5500A Multi-Product Calibrator can calibrate digital and analog multimeters, thermometers (thermocouple and RTD) handheld wattmeters, data loggers, current clamps, various types of recorders, panel meters, process calibrators, power harmonics analyzers and many other similar measurement tools.
The 5500A's Oscilloscope Calibration options further extend coverage to the most widely used analog and digital oscilloscopes. These options can be included at time of purchase, or added later at any authorized service center.
The 5500A includes all the traditional meter calibration source functions - voltage, current and resistance. Plus it adds capacitance, and both resistance and capacitance are continuously variable with resolution down to 1 milliohm or 0.1 pF. Both are easy and practical to use with a wide variety of measurement tools.
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 calibrators from Fluke Calibration. Each unit is shipped with test data and a certificate of traceability to nationally recognized standards.
Compliance with quality standards made easy
With quality control standards such as ISO 9000, there is a lot more to calibration than just making measurements. You also have documentation, control and reporting requirements to meet.
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.
Operation is easy
With the 5500A Multi-Product Calirbator, 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 5500A's display 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.
