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:
- The 8588A Reference Multimeter is
designed for calibration and metrology laboratories that require
the highest stability for the most accurate measurements to maintain
maximum confidence in traceability
- The 8558A
8.5 Digit Multimeter offers a subset of 8588A
functions and features at an extremely competitive accuracy and speed
performance.
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 feature callouts
A. Visual Connection Management terminals
Active terminals light up, guiding the user to make the correct
connections.
B. Easy-to-access configurations
Range, aperture, input impedance, RMS filter and other measurement
configurations are readily available.
C. Large, bright full color display
The intuitive user interface and flat menu structure make it easy to
access configurations and view trend plots, waveforms, FFT, histogram
and statistics.
D. Programmable front/rear electronic switch
Eliminates manual operation and allows immediate ratio results through
a single remote command.
E. 30 A terminal (8588A only; 2A for 8558A)
Enables industry's widest current measurement range through a single
terminal.
F. Soft menu keys
Adapt to the active function, so the menu structure is intuitive and
easy to learn.
G. Multi-language selection
Choice of English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian and
Spanish.
H. Run/Stop trigger
Toggles the continuous, or free run, measurement state.
I. USB ports
Download data quickly and easily to a flash drive.
J. Trig in/Trig out
Precise triggering maximizes synchronization in system automation.
K. Freq Counter
Enables 100 MHz frequency counter measurement at 0.5 uHz/z.
L. Rear panel input terminals
Mirrors front panel input terminals for connection compatibility and
allows for front/rear scan measurement.
M. IEEE 488, LAN, USB interfaces
Standard remote interface for straightforward system integration.
N. USB port
Download data quickly and easily to a flash drive.
O. 2 A terminal
8588A key features and performance
DC voltage
- 100 mV to 1000 V, (1050V max)
- 2.02x full scale
- Maximum resolution: 1 nV
- 2.7 μV/V (95 %) 3.5 μV/V (99 %), 1 year
- 0.5 μV/V (95 %) 0.65 μV/V (99 %), 24 hour stability
- 0 to 10 s reading aperture (200 ns resolution)
DC current
- 10 uA to 30 A (8588A only; 2 A for 8558A)
- 2.02x full scale
- Maximum resolution: 1 pA
- 6.5 μA/A (95 %), 8.4 μA/V (99 %), 1 year
- 0 ns to 100 s reading aperture
AC voltage
- 10 mV to 1000 V, 1 Hz to 10 MHz, (1050 Vrms max)
- 2.02x full scale Vpp, 1.2x full scale Vrms
- Maximum resolution: 1 nV
- 60 μV/V (95 %), 77 μV/V (99 %), 1 year
AC current
- 10 uA to 30 A (8588A only; 2 A for 8558A)
- 2.02x full scale Vpp, 1 Hz to 100 kHz 1.2x full scale Vrms
- Maximum resolution: 1 pA
- 250 μA/A (95 %), 323 μA/V (99 %), 1 year
Resistance
- 1Ω to 10 GΩ (20 GΩ max)
- 2.02x full scale
- Maximum resolution: 10 nΩ
- 7 μΩ/Ω (95 %), 9 μΩ/Ω (99 %), 1 year
- Low current mode, high voltage mode and current-reversal Tru Ohms™
Digitize V
- 100 mV to 1000 V, (1050 V max)
- 2.02x full scale
- Maximum resolution: 18 bits
- 5 mega-samples per second sample rate
- Up to 20 MHz bandwidth
Digitize I
- 10 μA to 30 A (8588A only; 2A for 8558A)
- 2.02x full scale
- Maximum resolution: 18 bits
- 5 mega-samples per second sample rate
- Up to 4 MHz bandwidth
Frequency or period
- Voltage, up to 10 MHz
- Current, up to 100 kHz
- Frequency up to 100 MHz on BNC
- 0.5 μHz/Hz, 1 year
Capacitance
- 1 nF to 100 mF
- 400 μF/F, 1 year
Temperature
- PRT and thermocouple
- 5 mK PRT, 25 mK TC - 1 year
RF power
- Rhode & Schwarz NRP series DC I and AC I external shunt
DC I and AC I external shunt
- A40B and any other external shunt
Reading speed
- 1 reading /s @ 8.5 digit into memory
- 100,000 readings /s @ 4.5 digit into memory
- Up to 5,000,000 (5 MS/s) readings /s into volatile memory in
digitize V and I
- Up to 500,000 readings/s transfer through USB in binary format
Measurement memory
- 15 million readings volitile
- 7.5 million readings with time stamp volitile
- 16 GB non-volitile
GPIB, USBTMC, Ethernet
- Native SCPI compliant remote commands
- 8508A and 3458A emulation mode
- Fully support MET/CAL™ calibration procedures library in Fluke
8508A emulation
- IVI driver
- USB thumb drive for convenient data transfer in .csv format
Trigger mechanisms
- Manual trigger
- External BNC Trig In and Trig Out
- Internal or level trigger
- Timer trigger
- Epoch trigger
- Line trigger
- BUS trigger
CE and CSA compliant
Stability, simplicity and performance by design
The 8588A incorporates exceptional linearity, low noise and
stability in the design. This best-in-class long-scale digital
reference multimeter guarantees superior 3.5 ppm one-year dc voltage
relative accuracy and long-term stability over a wide measurement range
and functions.
The 8588A contains the world’s most stable voltage references and
attenuators custom crafted at Fluke Calibration. These precision
components eliminate the need for daily internal self-calibration to
compensate for drift when less-precise components are used.
Autozeroing also becomes unnecessary because the amplifier offsets are
ultra-stable. The 8588A achieves an exceptional 8.5-digit
resolution reading in one second, two times shorter than the next best
in class, which amounts to considerable productivity improvements.
The 8588A is easy and intuitive to use. It is the ideal lab
multimeter for metrologists and calibration laboratory managers who
expect and appreciate a straightforward setup that quickly achieves the
maximum performance of the instrument.
- 2.7 µV/V (95%), 3.5 µV/V (99%), 1 year relative accuracy, dc
voltage without internal self-calibration or auto-adjustments
- 0.5 µV/V (95%), 0.65 µV/V (99%), 24 hour stability, dc voltage
- 7 µΩ/Ω (95%), 9 µΩ/Ω (99%), 1 year, resistance
- 2.02x full scale stretches lower noise floor to higher signal
levels to maximize higher accuracies from the instrument
- 200 ns to 100 s aperture setting allows the industry's widest
flexibility to control data capture window
Accuracy, offset and stability provide excellent ac performance
The 8588A provides the most accurate true ac rms measurement
available in a Fluke Calibration multimeter.
With a 5 mega-samples-per-second sampling analog-to-digital
converter and an extraordinarily stable dc analog path, the 8588A
achieves remarkable ac rms measurement performance that is ten times
faster, two times less noisy, and more sensitive for low level signals
than other instruments in this class. It utilizes digital rms
calculations to maintain full resolution of a wide dynamic range of
digitized signals, so you can see a wide range of measurements clearly.
Rapid digital filters are more effective than their analog
equivalents for faster settling. The digital filters eliminate the
dielectric absorption on analog filters, commonly associated with
residual slow-tail characteristics. The digital filters effectively
shorten settling time to within 6 cycles of the filter frequency and
less than 1 ppm of the fully settled value.This is up to 10 times
faster than other long scale precision digital multimeters at low
frequencies.
Low noise is achieved from averaging the collected high-resolution
digitized data and the inherently stable signal path. De-coupling low
level signal sensitivity from temperature drift enables the 8588A to
make higher accuracy low-level ac measurements. Therefore, temperature
drift, offsets, and long-term instability typically associated with an
analog rms converter are eliminated.
- 60 µV/V (95%), 77 µV/V (99%), 1 year relative accuracy, for the
most accurate ac voltage measurement
- 250 µA/A (95%), 323 µA/A (99%), 1 year relative accuracy, ac
current
- 15 ms settling time at 1kHz ac filter form 10x faster ac voltage
measurement
- 2.02x full scale Vpp, 1.2x full scale rms
- Up to 30 A for peak ac current greatly extends ac current
measurement range
AC voltage measurement
AC voltage measurement settings
Usability designed for metrologists by metrologists
The 8588A is the ideal lab multimeter. It streamlines the
measurement process while eliminating misunderstandings, with an
easy-to-access user interface in English, Chinese, French, German,
Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. An intuitive graphical display
lets you easily visualize trends, histograms, complex waveforms, and
statistics and perform routine metrology tasks quickly. You can perform
both real-time and post-capture analysis for short-term and long-term
stability, identifying and quantifying drifts, run-around noise and
uncertainty analysis without the need for an external computer or
software. You can also quickly visualize post-processed frequency
domain signals of fundamental and harmonic amplitude and phase content.
Some popular system multimeters have complex menu structures and
unintuitive commands, while others lack any user interface, presenting
barriers to training and operation. By contrast, the 8588A/8558A
feature an easyto- access configuration menu that makes it easy to
train new users.
The front panel features many new usability improvements. Visual
Connection Management™ output terminals light up to show which
terminals are active, guiding the user to make the correct connections.
The handles are over-molded for comfort and easy transport.
USB host ports are placed both on the front and rear of the
instrument. Use the ports to export data to external memory devices or
simplify firmware updates. For remote communication with a PC, choose
from Ethernet, GPIB or USBTMC connectors on the rear panel.
The 8558A/8558A provide full emulation of the Fluke 8508A Reference
Multimeter and command compatibility of the Keysight 3458A Digital
Multimeter via SCPI commands, making it an ideal replacement for these
older instruments.
- Graphical display that enables instantaneous visualization of
trend plot, statistical analysis, histogram and FFT.
- GPIB, USBTMC, Ethernet allows industry standard selection of
remote interface. • USB thumb drive enables quick and easy data
transfer to PC in .csv format.
- SCPI compliant commands with 8508A and 3458A emulation mode
simplifies and accelerates system upgrade process to 8588A/8558A
- Programmable front/rear input switching with scan measurement
allows ratio, difference and deviation measurements between front and
rear terminals in dc voltage, resistance, functions with state-ofthe-
art linearity, noise performance, superb transfer uncertainties.
- Capacitance and RF power meter readout from Rohde & Schwarz
NRP Series expands the utility of 8588A in calibrating multi-product
calibrators for improved productivity in calibration labs.
Trend plot
Analyze: Histogram