Fluke 289

[Dane Bear]

Is there any way on the Fluke 289-FVF to graph two or more items at once, then upload into View forms?

[AndyC_772]

Not simultaneously - it can only measure one thing at at time, after all. You'd need multiple meters to record more than one channel. I believe you can overlay multiple sets of readings in Forms, though.

To record multiple channels you'd need a multi-channel logger like the Hydra Databucket.

[M. András]

you can only do that in the fluke software but with 1 item at a time from 1 meter. but you can overlay them if you have multiple in some way as Andy said. would be handy to log the dual display functions

[AndyC_772]

The 289 already logs the max, min and average readings during each interval or event, as well as the instantaneous reading, so I'm not sure what other information there is to gain.

I was quite surprised the first time I used my 289. I set it to log at 1s intervals, and ended up with quite a long log file and a trend graph which took a long time to draw - but in fact I needn't have bothered. It's worth reading and understanding the manual, because it actually does quite a good job of interpreting a measurement the way an engineer would. Rather than having to wade through a long log file looking for anomalies, the 289 will do it for you. It logs an 'event' each time the reading deviates by more than X%, and will record periods of stability vs instability in the reading. It's quite clever and well thought-out, and means that sometimes at least there's no need to set it to capture very frequent samples.

[M. András]

when i brought mine home, i played with the logging function right from the start. 10k samples takes a long time to load in even to pc, but if you log directly to pc it takes 8 samples/seconds

[Dane Bear]

Cool. I guess I didn't know it logged on a specific deviation as well.

[AndyC_772]

RTFM 

http://www.newark.com/pdfs/promos/fluke/Fluke-289_Event_Logging_app_note.pdf