High Performing Fluke 5520A Oscilloscope Calibrator
Perhaps, you need a high performing calibrator solution for the most familiar digital test equipment – Oscilloscope used in your research laboratory or engineering department. In the earlier times, the oscilloscope was known as the oscillograph and used mainly for waveform reading and adjustment but their functional inefficiency in the areas like measurements and resolution has led to the development of more advanced versions. With the launch of digital oscilloscopes, calibration options and devices were simultaneously developed to let these instruments perform more efficiently. Calibration is the right option to configure your electronic device and confirm that it performs to the approved standard within a specified range. Using a high performing calibrator you will be able to measure the signal of your device and compare it with that of another better or improved standard. It’s not possible to make your instrument follow the referred standard without proper display and accurate measurement.
If you are looking to calibrate digital oscilloscopes, along with a wide range of other electrical testing instruments used in your lab or engineering house, the Fluke 5520A calibrator is available with flexible SC1100 options to make the process easy, fast and cost effective for you. The powerful functional features of Fluke 5520A-SC1100 will make it possible to standardize the oscilloscopes up to 1.1 GHz band width with 300 picoseconds rise time.
The Fluke 5520A-SC1100 is a better calibration option than 5520A and used for addressing a major portion of your electrical testing and measurement work load. The SC1100 calibration option allows the 5500A and 5520A oscilloscope user to calibrate the widely varying digital and analog signals up to 1.1 GHz. If the bandwidth of your oscilloscope needs to be maintained within 1.1 GHz, you should choose for SC1100 calibration option for the Fluke 5520A at Alliance Test Equipment center. With increased accuracy, expanded signal ranges, and capacity to adjust 5 1/2 and 6 1/2 digital multimeters you can expect this multi product calibrator to cover every possible high-performance electrical workload like watt meters, panel meters, data loggers, RTD thermometers and graphical multimeters.
Consistency and accuracy is as necessary for your scope as a doctor is to your health, a dentist to your teeth, and an oil change to your car. If your scope is giving inaccurate results, it is time for your device to be calibrated.
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 5500A’s Oscilloscope Calibration options 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:
You access the SC1100’s capabilities simply by selecting “Scope” mode on the calibrator’s front panel. All outputs are conveniently located on the calibrator’s output block to make hookups easy and to minimize the errors contributed by cabling. There are no fragile, bulky pulse heads to contend with.
New SC1100 option for the versatile workhorse 5520A Multi-Product Calibrator makes it faster, easier and more cost-effective. That’s because the new SC1100 now enables the 5520A to calibrate all of your oscilloscopes up to 1.1 GHz with rise times to 300 ps — even 125 ps with the 5800A/TDP tunnel diode pulser option.
Measurement is considered the reference; it is the one in the comparison taken to be the more correct of the two. Calibration finds out how far the unknown is from the standard. A “typical” commercial calibration uses the manufacturer’s calibration procedure and is performed with a reference standard at least four times more accurate than the instrument under test. Instrument calibration is one of the primary processes used to maintain instrument accuracy.
In short…calibration is the process of configuring an instrument to provide a result for a sample within an acceptable range.
Oscilloscopes are used to observe the change of an electrical signal over time, such that voltage and time describe a shape which is continuously graphed against a calibrated scale. The observed waveform can be analyzed for such properties as amplitude, frequency, rise time, time interval, distortion and others. Modern digital instruments may calculate and display these properties directly. Originally, calculation of these values required manually measuring the waveform against the scales built into the screen of the instrument.
