Fluke 279 FC Thermal Multimeter

This multifunctional device helps repair, detect, and validate many electrical issues, the thermal camera helps to detect hot spots on sensitive and high voltage equipment. This device with a built-in multimeter and a thermal camera makes it an extremely powerful and productive first-line troubleshooting device.

Prominent Features:

Image Quality: As compared to its competitors, it has better quality images having very little noise. The enhanced resolution makes the imaging much clear.

Price: The price is higher, but the quality and the combination of a multimeter with a thermal camera make it worth the money.

Operating Functions: 15 measurement functions including AC voltage with a low-pass filter, DC voltage, resistance, continuity, capacitance, diode test, min/max/avg, AC current, frequency.

TESTS AND EXPERIMENTS:

IR Camera Mode: The camera has a digital scale with a marker in the middle and can be used to measure the difference in ambient and environment. However, the huge differences in the environment take a little more time to provide a better quality image.

AC and DC Measurements: Like the usual meters, this tool can measure both AC and DC current and voltage measurements.

Low Pass Filter: The tool is capable of acting as a low pass filter. Any unwanted signal above 1kHz signal is blocked.

Resistance Measurements: It can measure up to 50Mohms of resistance.

Capacitance Measurements: The Multimeter makes a capacitance measurement by charging a capacitor with a known current, measures the resulting voltage, then calculates the capacitance.

Continuity Test: A beeper that sounds when a closed connection is used in the continuity test. The beeper helps you to run continuity checks, rather than the need to look at the show.

Diode Test: With the Multimeter, you can test diodes, transistors, silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs), and other semiconductor equipment. The test feature sends a current through the semiconductor's junction and then measures the drop in voltage across the junction. Attach the positive terminal of the component with a red probe and put the black probe lead on the component's negative terminal for forward-bias measurements on the semiconductor component.

Frequency Measurements: A measurement of frequency counts the number of times per second an AC voltage or current signal passes through a threshold point.

These are just a few of the features. The other features include zero-crossing detection, auto, manual range selection, display hold, IR image management, etc.