[volt-nuts] Fluke 343 as transfer standard

[David]

The Fluke 343 supports about a 20mA load and the 7075 has a 10MOhm
input resistance when set to the 100 and 1000 volt input ranges
yielding a worst case current draw of 0.1mA.  At that level, the
loading on the 343 is insignificant.

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:26:09 +0200, Fabio Eboli <FabioEb at quipo.it>
wrote:

>Hello all, I'm a newbie of precision devices, so
>I'm don't know the usual calibration procedures.
>
>Near to me there is a guy that wants to sell a fluke
>343. He offered also to connect it to it's fluke 8846,
>recently calibrated, to "calibrate" it.
>
>Probably he will connect the two fluke
>together and move the 343 pots to read the
>"correct values" on the 8846.
>Since my 7061 and 7075 aren't calibrated at all
>I'll use this as calibration for now.
>What can I expect connecting directly the 343
>to these and calibrating them to the values
>indicated by it?
>
>I imagine that the 100 and 1000V ranges will load
>the 343 output very much, but it' will also be loaded by
>the 8846 from the original owner, so probably
>the error will mostly cancelled.
>
>What do you think?
>Thank you.
>Fabio.