The 8588A Reference Multimeter is the world’s most stable digitizing multimeter. Designed for calibration laboratories, this long-scale high-precision reference features superior accuracy and long-term stability over a wide measurement range, with an intuitive user interface and a color display.
The 8588A delivers reliable and reproducible measurements with exceptional performance suitable for primary level laboratories. With more than 12 measurement functions, including the new digitize voltage, digitize current, capacitance, RF power, and external shunts for dc and ac current, the 8588A helps you consolidate your lab’s cost of test into a single measurement instrument. Its superb analog performance is augmented by Fluke Calibration’s new high-speed system design and the industry’s fastest direct digitizing capability, enabling significant throughput increase for many automated systems demanding a combination of the highest speed and best accuracy.
The 8588A holds the industry’s best one-year dc voltage accuracy of 2.7 uV/V at 95 % confidence interval, or 3.5 uV /V at 99 %, and best 24-hour stability of 0.5 uV/V (95 %) or 0.65 uV/V (99 %), enabling it to outperform other long-scale reference multimeters on the market. The 8588A further pushes the speed envelope by producing a stable 8.5 digits reading in a mere one second.
The 8588A platform consists of two models:
Each model features a common intuitive user interface with an easy-to-navigate menu structure for all configuration and matching SCPI-compliant commands for an automated environment. In addition, both models support a minimum of 100,000 readings per second at 4.5 digits across GPIB, USB or Ethernet.
| 8588A | 8558A | |
|---|---|---|
| DC voltage | 100 mV – 1000 V | 100 mV – 1000 V |
| AC voltage | 10 mV – 1000 V, 1 Hz – 10 MHz | 10 mV – 1000 V, 1 Hz – 10 MHz |
| Resistance, LoI, HV | 1 Ω – 10 GΩ | 1 Ω – 10 GΩ |
| DC current | 10 uA – 30 A | 10 uA – 2 A |
| AC current | 10 uA – 30 A, 1 Hz to 100 kHz | 10 uA – 2A, 1 Hz to 100 kHz |
| Digitize V |
100 mV – 1000 V, 5 MSamples/s, up to 20
MHz BW
|
100 mV – 1000 V, 5 MSamples/s, up to 20
MHz BW
|
| Digitize I |
10 uA – 30 A, 5 MSamples/s, up to 4 MHz BW
|
10 uA – 2 A, 5 MSamples/s,
up to 4 MHz BW
|
| Frequency (V, I, BNC) | 1 Hz to 10 MHz, 1 Hz to 100 kHz, 10 Hz to 100 MHz | 1 Hz to 10 MHz, 1 Hz to 100 kHz, 10 Hz to 100 MHz |
| Temperature | PRT / Thermocouple (ext CJC) | PRT / Thermocouple (ext CJC) |
| Capacitance | 1 nF – 100 mF | No |
| RF power | R&S NRP Series | No |
| Ext. dc current and ac current | A40B current shunt and other shunts | No |
| Graphical display | Yes | Yes |
| Visual Connection Management ® | Yes | Yes |
| Programmable front/rear input switching | Yes | Yes |
| Ratio difference, deviation – ohms, voltage, current | Yes | Yes |
| External 10 MHz ref clock, 50 Ω/Hi-Z | Yes | Yes |
| A40B and other shunt asset management | Yes | No |
| GPIB 488.2, Ethernet, USB TMC | Yes | Yes |
| SCPI command compatibility | Yes | Yes |
| 3458A emulation, 8508A emulation | Yes | Yes |
| Volatile memory | 15 million | 15 million |
| Level and other trigger | Yes | Yes |
| FFT onboard | Yes | No |
| Reading rates: 5 MS/s into memory, bus: 100 kS/s at 4.5 digits, 1 rdg/s at 8.5 digits | Yes | Yes |