VU Meters

[ViperDoc]

Anyone have a good source for factory new VU Meters?

[xtian]

No! But you might specify voltage or current and range, or purpose. Like, power tube current?

[Needs Coffee]

These guys?

https://www.hoytmeter.com/analog-panel- ... eters.html

[Leo_Gnardo]

These guys?

https://www.hoytmeter.com/analog-panel- ... eters.html

Nice link! Some impressive retro style meters there. When the lit says "contact us for a quote" better be sitting down when that quote arrives, iow X-pensive! VU meters never were cheap.

Might try snooping surplus dealers, Apex Jr comes to mind. And Studio Electronics in beautiful downtown Burbank shows us a nice selection of VU meters, some new some used, WITH PRICES! right here:

https://www.studioelectronics.biz/sunsh ... list&c=153

Happy meter hunting!

[johnnyreece]

Weber Speakers has some that are pretty affordable, depending on what you need: https://tedweber.com/amps/meters/

[ViperDoc]

No! But you might specify voltage or current and range, or purpose. Like, power tube current?

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure, although I was inspired by your Black Butte projects to see if I could reasonably squeeze one on a front panel and tie it to the speaker output, so long as it's not noisy. Those amps sound great, by the way. I think those were SE EL84 amps, if I'm not mistaken. Just great sounding.

[xtian]

No! But you might specify voltage or current and range, or purpose. Like, power tube current?

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure, although I was inspired by your Black Butte projects to see if I could reasonably squeeze one on a front panel and tie it to the speaker output, so long as it's not noisy. Those amps sound great, by the way. I think those were SE EL84 amps, if I'm not mistaken. Just great sounding.

Yes, that's reasonable. I was able to adjust the VU meter's sensitivity to match the amp's output by placing a resistor inline, between speaker output and VU meter. I clipped in a 100K pot temporarily, played the amp and set the pot for best VU performance, then read the pot's value and inserted a resistor with that value. No reason you couldn't leave the pot, though.

[ViperDoc]

Cool. Might be more headache than it's worth, but we'll see.

[Aurora]

Beware..... most VU meters are just mA-meters that requires a drive circuit to operate correctly....