Joe wrote:
Also, how do you get your 732A calibrated? Do the batteries last long enough to ship overnight to a facility?
No -- I assumed that was why you were looking for a battery connector. You install an external battery for shipment overnight. Fluke can supply a complete external battery with cable and plug ($375, last I knew), or you can make your own. I believe they can also supply a shipping container, which has a dedicated space for the Fluke external battery. (If you don't use Fluke's container, build something very sturdy with wood and padding and with handles that make it hard not to carry it and set it down right side up.)
I wouldn't have anybody but Fluke calibrate a 732A. There are 3 levels of calibration, all with data, from about $700 to about $1500 (the last is calibration by Fluke's Primary Standards Lab).
As far as thermistor values go, the relevant question is not what is the value in absolute terms, but rather what is the value in relation to the "as manufactured" value, which was provided by Fluke when the unit shipped. This had been recorded by the original owners of each of my units, and they are all within 2 ohms of the original value today.
If you do not know the original value, then your original measurement is a "going forward" value and it cannot tell you anything about where you are in relation to the original manufactured value. The fact that you had to change cal jumpers suggests that either the oven temperature has shifted since manufacture, the reference assembly has shifted, or both.
Fluke has said various things in various places about how far the thermistor readings can drift before you have a problem. +/- 20 ohms over the unit's lifetime seems to be a good consensus value. If it changes fast -- say, 10 ohms or more in a month -- you have a problem.
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