nice meter

[pucho812]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-BAIRD-ELECTRIC-COMPANY-Large-VOLTMETER-CHICAGO-ILL-Telephone-RARE-/143239130943

 

[user 37518]

nice and expensive!

 

[mjrippe]

WOW that's a long link!  Here's the short version which might not track all of your internet activity:
https://ebay.us/kij7ik

And the listing does not even specify AC, DC, working or not  :

 

[pucho812]

edited the first post.

 

[pucho812]

This one is a bit more beat up but still cool....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Circa-1900-Weston-Voltmeter-Gauge-Weston-Electrical-Instrument-Co/183828910880?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D20160323102634%26meid%3Db8d9d6d6f661404bbf7735055b6b4648%26pid%3D100623%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D143239130943%26itm%3D183828910880&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1

 

[JohnRoberts]

looks old and tired...

JR

 

[Tubetec]

It is nice to at least have one  old style moving coil meter to hand in the workshop , Ive a couple of AVOmeters still , dont get used much anymore of course , but the styling alone means they get a shelf for aesthethic reasons .

Its all gone wrong nowadays ,just making stuff to throw out , building our own funeral pyre on the dross of humanity .

 

[user 37518]

It is nice to at least have one  old style moving coil meter to hand in the workshop , Ive a couple of AVOmeters still , dont get used much anymore of course , but the styling alone means they get a shelf for aesthethic reasons .

Its all gone wrong nowadays ,just making stuff to throw out , building our own funeral pyre on the dross of humanity .

I have a Simpson 260 which I like but dont use that much, Ï also have a couple of Japanese Sanwa meters, they are great analog meters and considerably cheap.

 

[pucho812]

Well I am hunting meters to build variac panels for some studio  lighting controls giving them something extra... the older Weston meters fit the decor so well.

 

[JohnRoberts]

I have a Simpson 260 which I like but dont use that much, Ï also have a couple of Japanese Sanwa meters, they are great analog meters and considerably cheap.

I cut my teeth on a Simpson 260 as a junior technician back in the 1960s... I never owned one personally, and surely would have kept that.

I am not going to pay almost $300 for a new one, or way too much for a used one. 

JR

@pucho.. back in the early 70s when I built my power amp into an old circa 1930s Western Electric PS chassis there was a large round meter in the faceplate. I don't recall what scale but don't think it was mains voltage because I might have been tempted to hook that up.

 

[pucho812]

I cut my teeth on a Simpson 260 as a junior technician back in the 1960s... I never owned one personally, and surely would have kept that.

I am not going to pay almost $300 for a new one, or way too much for a used one. 

JR

@pucho.. back in the early 70s when I built my power amp into an old circa 1930s Western Electric PS chassis there was a large round meter in the faceplate. I don't recall what scale but don't think it was mains voltage because I might have been tempted to hook that up.

well I feel  a volt meter would make the most sense in my application as it's just a light dimmer with a variac/variable transformer.  Purely for looks here.

 

[JohnRoberts]

if you don't mind printing your own cosmetic meter scale you can probably trick almost any working meter (V or mA) to wiggle in response to light dimmer output.

JR

PS: I just wasted a few minutes and can't find my old meter... I probably didn't throw it away but don't recall seeing in decades. 

 

[pucho812]

if you don't mind printing your own cosmetic meter scale you can probably trick almost any working meter (V or mA) to wiggle in response to light dimmer output.

JR

True

 

[rackmonkey]

I love old panel meters. That one looks more like a plumbing fixture.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-BAIRD-ELECTRIC-COMPANY-Large-VOLTMETER-CHICAGO-ILL-Telephone-RARE-/143239130943