[BC] A What's it?

Alan Alsobrook radiotech
Tue Nov 8 06:53:28 CST 2005


I'll put the Z-meter on them in a bit and see what sort of numbers I 
come up with. I had no idea that those weren't the original meters. As 
far as the history is known Back into the 60's those are the meters that 
were in it. But who knows.. I'll take a closer look tonight.

Phil Alexander wrote:

> Too bad the original meters weren't there. Those Weston VU meters
> were used on all the WE equipment I ever saw as well as most of the
> top of the line gear from the immediate post-war period.
> 
> I'm curious, how did they get anything resembling a normal ballistic
> from a meter with greater sensitivity? I'd also think the impedance
> would be quite a bit lower.
> 
> IIRC the standard VU meter had an impedance of 3900 ohms as a bare
> device and the meter attenuator had an inpedance of 7200 ohms for
> +4 and above.

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Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
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