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Re: Where can I buy a large analogue meter?

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Subject: Re: Where can I buy a large analogue meter?
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by: Dean Hoffman - Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:15 UTC

On Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 7:04:03 AM UTC-5, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:59:48 +0100, Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 14/04/2022 12:27, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:01:48 +0100, Martin Brown
> >> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 14/04/2022 11:45, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> >>>> Where can I buy a large analogue meter? Big enough to show to a room of
> >>>> people, about a foot long pointer.
> >>>
> >>> A small one and a smartphone/tablet video fed to a decent sized screen.
> >>
> >> Doesn't look so good.
> >>
> >>> You wouldn't be able to afford an analogue meter that large.
> >>> Though you could build one from scratch in the true DIY fashion.
> >>>
> >>> Model 8 Avo is about as big as they ever realistically get now.
> >>>
> >>> ISTR Gallencamp (sp?) did larger ones for school labs back in the 70's.
> >>> There is a Unilab 8" one +/- 50 uA on eBay right now.
> >>>
> >>> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115332876615
> >>
> >> I was in school in the 80s, and we had massive ones, looked like some
> >> kind of old fashioned weighscale from a fair. Very useful for the whole
> >> class to see the volts and amps in a circuit under demonstration.
> >
> > Make one yourself then. This is uk.d-i-y the clue is in the name!
> Easier to press a button on Ebay, I can't believe nobody makes them.

Buy a few old ones on Ebay and pass them around. Depending on your budget, of course.
It might be good for people to see the contrast in design.

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Where can I buy a large analogue meter?	Dean Hoffman

Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react.

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