Charles, What size batteries did you use for your external pack and where are you located? In other words, how long can your external battery pack 'survive' keeping the 732A 'hot'? Is the external pack recharged at Fluke or does it have to make a round trip on the initial charge? Once I am convinced my unit is stable (which will probably be another six months or so, after I get my 3458A's re-calibrated by Agilent), I hope to be able to send it to Fluke for calibration.
Fluke made a transit case (732A-7002) and a Battery Charger and Auxiliary Battery Case (732A-7003). However, I have never seen a picture of either of these. Does anyone have any information on these? How did you make your case? Did you include a charger? Combination of battery pack and shipping container or separate battery pack and shipping container? I was thinking of building a case with built-in charger, fuse, and AC connector and cord such that when the unit arrived at the CAL facility all that would be needed would be to plug it in and allow the external battery pack to recharge while the unit being calibrated was plugged in, recharge the internal batteries, and calibrated. Or does the 732A also charge the external battery pack along with the internal batteries? The connector you need (complete with female contacts) is a Hypertronics P/N D01PB306FSTAH and is in stock at Kensington Electronics at $8.96 each (plus tax and shipping). Only problem is their $50 minimum order. The 'shell' only is P/N D01PB306NT and the female contact is P/N YSK006-010ANH (three needed). http://ecommerce.keiconn.com/hypertronics/D01PB306FSTAH I ordered two of the connectors from Fluke using a P/N that one of the Fluke folks in their eCal facility gave me, noting that someone else had asked the same question a couple of weeks earlier, with Fluke Item# 2181497, described as '100-166, PLUG - MALE, HYPERTRONICS'. They were $12.31 each (plus tax and shipping) and arrived as the shell only, no contacts. If Fluke solves their supply chain problem, I sure would like to get the six female contacts I need to make my connectors 'complete'. When I got on the phone with Fluke, I could never find anyone that had any knowledge about this. Is there anyone there I should ask for that might understand my question? I look forward to your posting the update from Fluke. Thanks. Joe _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.