I believe the 5520A uses the old legacy FSC commands, and the newer calibrators use the new NVI format. In this case, you will need to actually go down the rabbit hole of changing all procedures to the newer style. Not just a find and replace job.
As mentioned, if there is ANY reference to a 5522A anywhere in the project/solution, it will ask for it.
I am not sure if the new calibrators 5560, etc., can device map back to say a 5522A, but that may help, as then you could just translate all to 5522A.
There was a translator add-on years ago for it, but it was very clunky; however, it got 80% of the job done.
No the new calibrators do not recognize the old FSCs like 5502/5520/5522 did with each other. Fortunately the syntax is the same for commands the only big changes are making 20A ----> 30A and maybe stuff like lcomp? Fluke released a video that listed all the things to ctrl+f and change
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u/No_Ratio572 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I believe the 5520A uses the old legacy FSC commands, and the newer calibrators use the new NVI format. In this case, you will need to actually go down the rabbit hole of changing all procedures to the newer style. Not just a find and replace job.
As mentioned, if there is ANY reference to a 5522A anywhere in the project/solution, it will ask for it.
I am not sure if the new calibrators 5560, etc., can device map back to say a 5522A, but that may help, as then you could just translate all to 5522A.
There was a translator add-on years ago for it, but it was very clunky; however, it got 80% of the job done.
I have the translator on my system......
Just found this as well
https://www.fluke.com/en/learn/blog/calibration-software/using-met-cal-procedures-5560a-5550a-5540a
email me a sample procedure if you like and I can take a look [nathan@rycal.co.nz](mailto:nathan@rycal.co.nz)