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News Release from: Fluke (UK) | Subject: 190B Series ScopeMeters
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 March 2003
Handheld scopes have upgraded displays
Fluke has enhanced its ScopeMeter range of high-performance handheld monochrome oscilloscopes.
Fluke has enhanced its ScopeMeter range of high-performance handheld monochrome oscilloscopes The upgraded models offer a 20% screen size increase, a doubling of screen brightness, and an extended range of triggering modes to help in troubleshooting
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new Fluke 190B Series ScopeMeters, which replace the 190 Series, have a 20% larger screen, with a diagonal of 144cm.
The screen is also twice as bright as before and has improved contrast for easier interpretation of waveforms in all working conditions.
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The 190B Series' 320 x 240-pixel screen resolution and 1200 samples per trace (up from 1000) further enhance on-screen detail and allow 12 horizontal (timescale) divisions.
All the new Fluke 190B Series ScopeMeters are two-channel oscilloscopes with separate high-speed digitisers per channel.
They are 1000V CAT II and 600V CAT III safety certified.
The top-of-the-range Fluke 199B model has a 200MHz bandwidth and 2.5Gsample/s real-time sampling rate per input.
The 196B has a 100MHz bandwidth (1Gsample/s sampling rate) while the 192B has a 60MHz bandwidth (500Msample/s sampling rate).
With a many times faster display update rate (similar to that of the 190C Series Colour ScopeMeters), signal changes are seen immediately, helping users to analyse complex, modulated or other fast-changing waveforms.
Faster display of dynamic signals is particularly useful when making fine adjustment of a system under test.
The 190B's ScopeRecord mode now also features a 'stop-on-trigger' function that allows the instrument to stop recording waveform data if the signal is interrupted or if a specific trigger signal is received.
This function is useful for recording and analysing power interruptions, machine failures and UPS takeover.
An automatic measurement function that allows users to measure the effective output voltage of variable speed motor drives and pulsewidth modulated power supplies is also built in.
Other features include a waveform-compare function allowing an acquired trace to be stored as a 'reference trace', which can be subsequently used to visually compare newly acquired waveforms.
The coverage of the TrendPlot function has been extended from 8 to 22 days.
The optional FlukeView PC software (V4.1) has been updated to handle reference templates, enter set-up descriptions and provide more download functions (a free update is available for V3.x users).
Despite the larger display and faster operation, battery life is unchanged.
The built-in NiMH battery pack still provides up to 4h operating time per recharge.
A battery charger (BC190), voltage probes, ground lead, 4mm probe tip, ground-lead-to-banana-plug cable and hard-point test leads (TL75) are all included.
Extensive user documentation is supplied on CD-ROM. Request a free brochure from Fluke (UK) ...
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