I remember that a lot of the cost was calibration of the analogue meter and
indeed the very high quality switches and plating used inside it, all of
which was not cheap.
If I could see, I'd still need an analogue meter since there was nothing as
revealing as the wobbling of a reading to indicate where an intermittent
fault might lurk.
Digital are fine for steady state work of course, but for fault finding
they were of limited use.
Brian

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On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 05:57:01 -0800, whisky-dave wrote:

Just looking back at an old record of department purchases since 1957.
Tracked done one of our remaining AVO's 8 mk III and ,atching serial
number it seems we bought 6 of them for £128 in Aug 1966. So about £22
each.

Just found it interesting wonder how you would factor in inflation and
what they would be in todays money.

They were about £1000 from RS when they last sold them, as I recall. That
would be about 2008.

I bought a mint condition Mark 6 for about £90 a while ago.


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