Some things just don’t go out of style. Take blue jeans, for example.

Or consider the humble VU meter.

For recording engineers, it’s never gone out of style. Despite the digital revolution, analog VU meters are still quite popular in the recording studio amongst serious sound engineers. So, what’s the...

Analog is making a comeback in the music industry. Some aficionados are buying vinyl records again, for the more natural sound they offer. Plus, some manufacturers are even returning to an old standby to measure the signal level of music in high-end sound systems: the analog VU meter.

VU (volume unit...

Temperature reigns as the most often measured process parameter in industry. While temperature measurement utilizes sensors of many forms, the actual measurement of temperature is accomplished via only five basic sensor types: Thermocouple (T/C), Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD), Thermistor, In...

Analog Panel Meters were once used to measure AC and DC voltage and current exclusively in many products. Every older piece of test equipment available seemed to have an analog indicator of one form or another. To monitor different aspects in a circuit, some meters would indicate a rate of change, a...

The basic guts or the part that makes any analog panel meter work is referred to the meter movement. There are several different types of meter movements. In this white paper, we are going to discuss how the meter movements work and the various types. The meter movement itself is based on principles...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s new Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI) is designed to focus attention on the benefits of creating more sustainable manufacturing facilities and promoting the use of American clean-energy products in the workplace. Announced in late March, the CEMI plan calls...