BIG METERS, What to do with them.

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I found these 2 new meters from an alignment machine, never been used and since my Family Room is gonna be retro style with old stereo stuff and pub table and chairs, I'd like to incorporate these meter somehow. I can paint the meter faces inside and i have LED's for lighting them. Any ideas are welcome but I was thinking of making a lite up fixture that would hold an album cover when I have the record on the turn table so if you needed to look at the song lineup and find the '"ONE HIT" on the one hit wonder album or I can display a couple cool albums like the Molly Hatchet cover art done by Frazetta or maybe Iron Maiden's Eddie done by Riggs....... These meters are 8" tall x 10" wide and if it matters, they are real meters so if we look at the left and right deflection voltage/current and give my stoner buddies something to watch since they are too stoned to work the TV Remote The best "IDEA" somebody can come up with will win a woopie cushion and a back issue of better homes and gardens.
............................ Hmmmmmmm


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mlucitt

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I would make the left one "Left Skating Force" and "Right Skating Force". The one on the right is not symmetrical, so maybe "Tonearm Up" and "Tonearm Down". You will have to design the sensors to actuate the meters.
 

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I would make the left one "Left Skating Force" and "Right Skating Force". The one on the right is not symmetrical, so maybe "Tonearm Up" and "Tonearm Down". You will have to design the sensors to actuate the meters.
Good idea Mark butt too complicated. Maybe a Clap On, Clap Off would do some shit man... :)
 

Overundr1

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Your idea was so inspiring I had to dig out a set of PL-400 meters I found ten years ago at an abandoned radio station in Alabama, an old cigar box, a couple of trimmers and diodes and came up with this. Poor Sansui amps watching the PL-700 coming to life were feeling display challenged :)
Hooked up to a AU-9900A
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