A home weather station is great geek street cred. Buying a commercially available station will get you all the bells and whistles, but the look tends to the utilitarian. And then there’s the trouble ...

Power plants use indicators to monitor process parameters such as pressure, flow, temperature, voltage, current, and vibration. Unless a facility is relatively new, it likely has analog panel meters; ...

Quite apart from anything else, using analog meters gives your hobby projects a certain sense of ‘je ne sais quoi.’ Quite apart from anything else, using analog meters gives your hobby projects a ...

Usuallyyour meter will be bought or adapted for a specific measurement and youwill not have to make special efforts to get it to read what you want.Or your schematic will specify the sensitivity of ...

Editor's note: If you're like us and can't bear to part with that crusty old (but magnificent) analog meter, David Ashton offers everything you want to know about these gems in this three-part series: ...

AVO meters — literally amp, volt, ohm meters — are not very common in North America but were staples in the UK. [TheHWcave] found an AVO 8 that is probably from the 1950s or 1960s and wanted to get it ...

Quite apart from anything else, using analog meters gives your hobby projects a certain sense of ‘je ne sais quoi.’ Quite apart from anything else, using analog meters gives your hobby projects a ...

Analog meters are the only safe electric metering device. I know a recent ruling now prevents Central Hudson from installing the two-way communicating smart meters and prevents them for charging the ...

Once a mainstay of every station, the reel-to-reel recorder is now a mystery to some people. While most radio stations are fully digital now, there are still a few limited (often forgotten) parts of ...