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Does anyone still use an Avo Meter?

alanblaby
Yesterday, I bought, for the bargain price of £15, an Avo Meter 12, ex-RAF, still in its leather box, albeit without leads.

By the side of it was a mint condition Model 9, complete with leads and all accessories in its leather tool roll for £42. I was sorely tempted.

It's hard to believe I was using one of these in the early 90's, they look to be a tool of the 40's and 50's.
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    Yes, I still use one regularly but primarily for electronics and the like rather than for true electrical installation work.
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    I have a model 8 Mk5 which I still use occasionally. I acquired it a few years ago with a case of resistors for reading various high amperages. It was a Nato model. I use it occasionally as it sits on the office shelf where it is too large to get lost in the clutter, I have yet to make a battery to fit though. I find that a nice analog reading can be very informative and the digital fake analog readings are just not the same. I have a variety of modern electronic stuff for site work that in many ways are far superior but am not convinced that digital displays are always the best.
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    I've had a Model 8 MK III for about 30 years, no longer calibrated, only used for experimental setups.
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    I have a lovely AVO 8 Mk 6 - one previous owner from new. The leather box still smells leathery.


    It mostly gets used for checking batteries. How else can you check the batteries in your Fluke multimeter? ?
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    I have AVO 8 in pretty good condition also.

    Alan, yours might well have been used by me (RAF 70-80s)!!
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    Rhino


    I have exactly the same thing.


    I have a couple more in the loft, free to anyone who wants them if they pick them up.


    JP
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    Can I just point out that you will record a different voltage test result using a moving coil meter rather than a digital meter.


    Andy Betteridge


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    Sparkingchip:

    Can I just point out that you will record a different voltage test result using a moving coil meter rather than a digital meter.


    Andy Betteridge


     




    So the old AVO may still have a purpose.


    Andy B.


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    I broke mine years ago. I`m too far away from JP to take up his kind offer. "Beloved are the AVO". that moving needle told you a lot more than digits alone
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    I have a Model 8 Mk V owned by myself from brand-new in 1975.  Still in very good condition in a beautiful AVO leather case. I regularly use it for bench work and don't bump it around on installation work (that's for the more robust DMMs).  Wonderful instruments.

    Regards,

                    Colin Jenkins.

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