On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 12:02:33 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

on 09/03/2015, Dave Plowman (News) supposed :
The OP mentioned Fluke. My Fluke does. And that gives a far more accurate
min/max than trying to read a waggling needle.

For leaving across the mains and logging its worst excurions in voltage
they are perfect, for everything else a proper analogue meter works
best.

Analogue meters still have their uses, tweaking adjustable resistors, capacitors
or inductors for a peak or trough in a low voltage analogue circuit, but for the
rest of the time digital is IMHO way better, more robust, often more accurate,
more stable, certainly easier to read and much lighter. If you buy a quality
brand it also won't explode into bits of glass and metal if things go wrong.
Approaching 100% of analogue meters will not meet *any* CAT ratings because they
are from an era before the standard was created. The AVO 8 in it's very last
incarnation only met 250v CAT III
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