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![ii900 industrial acoustic imager leak detection ii900 industrial acoustic imager leak detection](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/F-ii900_22a_w.jpg)
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![14 ways hidden air leaks wreak havoc on equipment 14 ways hidden air leaks wreak havoc on equipment](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/equipment-issues-air-leaks-1500x1000.jpg)
How the ii900 Acoustic Imager air leak detector can help you find the root cause of equipment issues and prevent costly downtime.
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![Power Monitoring Fluke 3540fc Power Monitoring Fluke 3540fc](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/power-monitoring-fluke-3540fc-08a-c.jpg)
Read the wastewater plant case study on how the Fluke 3540 Power Monitor paid for itself in five months by eliminating the need to use contractors.
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![Fluke 438-II Power Quality and Motor Analyzer Fluke 438-II Power Quality and Motor Analyzer](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/fluke-438-II-01-1500x1000.jpg)
Watch the video to see how the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium uses the Fluke 438-ii power quality analyzer and motor analyzer to reduce water and energy . . .
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Many facilities, such as power plants or production facilities, depend on a strong preventive maintenance program. These programs are essential to keep . . .
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![Fluke ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager Fluke ii900 Sonic Industrial Imager](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/F-ii900_25a_c_1500x1000.jpg)
What if there were a leak detection technology that could pinpoint the precise location of a leak from up to 50 meters away? The Fluke ii900 Sonic Industrial . . .
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Find out how air leak detection equipment prevents downtime for a 150,000 square foot plant that runs approximately 400 tools on compressed air, produced . . .
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As the wind energy industry evolves, so does the wind technician community. Learn how a unique wind tech community shares troubleshooting and solutions . . .
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![A motor braking manufacturing plant steps up to proactive maintenance A motor braking manufacturing plant steps up to proactive maintenance](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/jacobs-video-clip.jpg)
Bob Despres of Jacobs Vehicle Systems® in Bloomfield, CT shares how he stepped up the motor maintenance program to be more proactive.
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![ARTICLE: Finding a Power Quality Needle in a 30-Mile Haystack ARTICLE: Finding a Power Quality Needle in a 30-Mile Haystack](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/finding-PQ-needle-in-30mi-haystack-1500x1000.jpg)
At the end of April 2005, Crystal Mountain Resort in Washington suffered catastrophic failure of two power filters associated with their chair lifts.
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Maintenance electrical specialist Mark Newport was in the process of installing new electronic power factor correction units at multiple motor control . . .
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You could almost call it a happy accident. During a routine job at a large industrial facility, an electrical maintenance worker set a plastic kit on top . . .
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For three years in a row, a particularly large three-phase motor would fail twice a year. The facility maintenance manager called in both the electrical . . .
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Ever fixed something and still not solved the problem? Sometimes multiple deficiencies can all cause the same symptoms.
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![Low Power Factor Low Power Factor](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/low-power-factor-1500x1000.jpg)
Because power quality issues are difficult to pinpoint, clients often reach the wrong conclusions about their power issues. That often leads to expensive . . .
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This case history comes from an electrical contractor. Several of this contractor's clients operate large commercial buildings.
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![Machine Shop Motor Failures Machine Shop Motor Failures](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/machine-shop-motor-failures-1500x1000.jpg)
Motor failures can be mysterious. Often, the mechanical loads on the motors have not changed and other loads connected to the same service appear to work . . .
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![ARTICLE: Performing power quality studies troubleshooting - 1 ARTICLE: Performing power quality studies troubleshooting - 1](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/performing-PQ-studies-troubleshooting-loads-1500x1000.jpg)
Mac McArthur performs power quality studies for commercial, industrial, and residential clients.
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![ARTICLE: Instant power replay solves breaker trip - 1 ARTICLE: Instant power replay solves breaker trip - 1](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/instant-power-replay-solves-breaker-trip-1500x1000.jpg)
After experiencing some nuisance tripping of breakers in the subpanel feeding the second floor of this industrial building, we installed a Fluke 1750 Power . . .
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![ARTICLE: Fluke instruments add reliability - 1 ARTICLE: Fluke instruments add reliability - 1](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/fluke-instruments-add-reliability-oceanographic-research-1500x1000.jpg)
It was in his capacity as an electrical troubleshooter and an electronics expert that Gagne, almost two years ago, first began to use a Fluke 434 Power . . .
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![ARTICLE: More snow with power quality - 1 ARTICLE: More snow with power quality - 1](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/more-snow-with-PQ-1500x1000.jpg)
A ski resort near Silverthorn, CO., depends on its snowmaking capacity to augment nature's snowfall, especially during drought years.
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![Rural Transformer Failure Rural Transformer Failure](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/rural-transformer-failure-1500x1000.jpg)
This case history involves the investigation of a utility transformer failure that occurred in a rural area surrounded mostly by farmland and open space. . . .
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![Half Wave Rectifier Half Wave Rectifier](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/half-wave-rectifier-1500x1000.jpg)
One winter morning, the electrician received a call from a local school. The caller said a transformer supplying power to three portable classrooms was . . .
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![5th Harmonic Resonance 5th Harmonic Resonance](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/5th-harmonic-resonance-1500x1000.jpg)
A small city gets its water from a mountain lake 30 miles away. A pumping system at the lake brings water up a short incline and into a long gravity pipeline . . .
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The engineer carries a Fluke 43B on all trouble calls, because it provides a graphical display that allows customers to see a picture of the problem.
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![Lighting Ballast Evaluation Lighting Ballast Evaluation](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/lighting-ballast-eval-43b_07-1500x1000.jpg)
In most facilities, lighting is a major element of operating cost. Part of that cost is due to energy, and part is due to maintenance.
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This case history is a classic example of the importance of a systematic approach to solving a problem. It involves a contractor who works with several . . .
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![Driving the future of flight Driving the future of flight](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/Seppos-Story.png)
Driving the future of flight, Fluke tools are in the hands of the everyday heroes of aviation. Seppo Huittinen is an instructor at Savo Vocational College . . .
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![Yellowstone Geyser Fluke TiX580 Thermal Image Yellowstone Geyser Fluke TiX580 Thermal Image](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/Yellowstone Geyser Fluke TiX580 Thermal Imager 1500x1000px.jpg)
National Geographic details geysers, other hydrothermal features in production
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![How scientist use thermal imaging to forecast changes in volcanic activity How scientist use thermal imaging to forecast changes in volcanic activity](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/kilauea-with-fluke-ir-camera_0.jpg)
Scientists collect a variety of critical information and data to better understand erupting volcanoes, including temperature measurements from handheld . . .
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![ARTICLE: Fluke Filmwerks Green Bay 2677 1500x1000 ARTICLE: Fluke Filmwerks Green Bay 2677 1500x1000](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/SS-Fluke-Filmwerks-Green-Bay-2677-1500x1000.jpg)
Filmwerks International is one company that has implemented a better way to monitor utility power for their backup UPS systems and generators
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Benco Dental is the largest independent, family owned dental distributor in the United States, with more than 1,200 associates serving over 30,000 customers . . .
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Electric fish, like knifefish, produce electrical signals used for sensing where they and their schoolmates are. Electric eels produce, in addition, more . . .
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What's in your toolbox? Yuengling Tampa Brewery
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![Case study: Yuengling Brews Up a Winning Maintenance Approach Case study: Yuengling Brews Up a Winning Maintenance Approach](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/fnp-toc-default-process.jpg)
The Yuengling maintenance team keeps the vintage facility brewing and bottling up to a million barrels of beer yearly. It takes a very lean operation to . . .
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![Case study: Life safety technician relies on Fluke test tools to verify installations Case study: Life safety technician relies on Fluke test tools to verify installations](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/fnp-toc-default-electronics.jpg)
Every building, whether it houses commercial, industrial, municipal, healthcare, or educational operations, must include life safety systems.
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![Case study: DC services specialist deploys battery analyzer to maintain critical UPS systems Case study: DC services specialist deploys battery analyzer to maintain critical UPS systems](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/flukenews-toc-1500x1000-F-bt521_25a_h_1.jpg)
Many services offered by ERS involve maintaining uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems.
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Ensuring that a soon-to-be-launched prototype printer works without any hiccups when it reaches consumer hands is an already daunting task. But when . . .
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![A hospital tech develops his power quality knowledge A hospital tech develops his power quality knowledge](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/F-434-2_05a_c1500x1000.jpg)
Downtime is costly, both in terms of patient wellbeing and monetary costs - the X-Ray, mammography, and other systems themselves cost millions and a . . .
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![Case study: Fluke 1587 Insulation Multimeter helps keep 1950s motors and generators running into the 21st century Case study: Fluke 1587 Insulation Multimeter helps keep 1950s motors and generators running into the 21st century](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/fnp-toc-default-motors-drives.jpg)
MetalTech produces steel sheets. Maintenance technicians use the Fluke 1587 Insulation Multimeter to troubleshoot and maintain the equipment.
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![Fluke Oscilloscope Used to Measure Electric Eel Voltage Fluke Oscilloscope Used to Measure Electric Eel Voltage](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/will-fishfinder-kukri-creek.jpg)
Learn how the Fluke ScopeMeter® 190-202 portable oscilloscope, used by scientist Will Crampton and the crew on location in Suriname to measure the voltage . . .
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At commercial buildings and industrial plants, energy costs can quickly add up, especially when older lighting systems are in place, motors age and . . .
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![Case study: Fluke DMMs in Antarctica Case study: Fluke DMMs in Antarctica](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/fnp-toc-default-electrical.jpg)
Astronomers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have been working in Antarctica's interior since 1996. In collaboration with . . .
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![Case study: Wind park engineer goes sky high to troubleshoot Case study: Wind park engineer goes sky high to troubleshoot](//dam-assets.fluke.com/s3fs-public/styles/768_4-col/public/2015-oct-fnp-legends-banner-1500x1000-revise.jpg)
A Canadian engineer keeps wind farm in New Brunswick up and running by using a Fluke multimeter.
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The safety rated Fluke T+Pro gets field-tested by non-electricians. Larger buttons for gloved hands and a battery life indicator helped to make the . . .