Multimeter Vote. Analog or Digital?

[rhunt]

Does anyone still make the small, relatively inexpensive "pocket" analog VOMs anymore? Had one years ago back in the day when digital ones were pricey. Don't know what happened to it.
Agree that both have their uses.

Amazon has triplett analog meters large and small available. Bob

 

[vic4news]

I haven’t used my analog meter since I bought a Fluke 111 about 20 years ago.

 

[DarkBlack]

We used to employ analog meters for everyone to use when measuring non-sinusoidal waveforms , like VFD outputs to motors. Once the more accurate true RMS reading DVM’s started proving themselves, like the higher end Flukes, we switched everyone to just them, for documentation and consistency. DVM’s are much more reliably interpreted across multiple employees , than analog meters. You’d be amazed how often scales and needle positions are misread on analog meters used daily.
Good modern DVM’s should also have peek reading, holding, as well as min/max, and average, which replicates most of analog, plus allows leaving it connected and coming back later to see the stored values.
Quick answer..Digital!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Another thing I did when starting in business (I was very poor and had to improvise) is an analog meter I put a DPDT switch on it. Then wired test leads to it. It was easy, flipping switch changes lead polarity.
That made a capacitor (condenser) tester.
I would put a capacitor across leads. A large one, say 1000 ufd, put meter on Rx1. Each flip would charge/discharge cap. So (example) 1 second per flip, meter reading half way, cap was good. Smaller caps like 10 ufd I'd use Rx100 scale, 0.1ufd...Rx1000.
Simple & cheap...but it works.