Fluke 279 FC Thermal Multimeter wins The Control Engineering Awards 2017 for innovation
The Fluke 279 FC Thermal Multimeter won the Hardware – handheld test, measurement, calibration category in the Control Engineering 2017 Engineers’ Choice Awards, recognizing it for improving workforce productivity. Fluke Condition Monitoring, also part of the Fluke Connect system, received an honorable mention in the same category.
This is the third honor for both products and the 25th for the underlying Fluke Connect system. Fluke Connect is the company’s SaaS reliability platform that permits Fluke tool users to receive, store, visualize, and report electronic measurement data from more than 40 Fluke Connect wireless test tools.
The Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Awards highlight some of the best new control, instrumentation, and automation products as chosen by Control Engineering's print and online subscribers.
Find – Repair – Validate – Report
The 279 FC Thermal Multimeter is a full-featured digital multimeter with integrated thermal imaging and is designed to increase your productivity and confidence. The thermal multimeter helps you find, repair, validate, and report many electrical issues quickly so you are confident problems are solved.
Locate the problem immediately
Thermal imaging multimeters are a first-line troubleshooting tool for electrical equipment that can check hot spots on high-voltage equipment and transformers, detect heating of fuses, wires, insulators, connectors, splices, and switches. Scanning with the 279 FC's thermal imager reveals many electrical issues rapidly and from a safe distance. By combining two tools into one, the thermal multimeter lightens the load and increases productivity.