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; ...

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: ...

From the early days of electronic design and servicing, engineers and technicians relied mostly on analog meters for measuring voltage, current, frequency, wattage, and most other needed measurements.

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The News Channel 3 Investigators decided to ...

Digital multimeters are precise and accurate instruments, with some models being very expensive. No matter the cost, one problem pervades every one of these devices: They do a poor job of conveying ...

Digital multimeters (DMM), once called voltmeters, have been described as the tape measure for engineers in the new millennium. With electronics and electrical circuits included in almost every ...

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 ...