Message	Date	From	Subject
8331	2013-03-11 12:12:33	Jerry Haigwood	W7ZOI's wattmeter
I am finally getting around to building W7ZOI's wattmeter from June 2001 QST. The wattmeter uses a 0-1mA meter movement which is calibrated 0-15VDC. Radio Shack no longer sells this meter. They have a replacement but it has a 50uA movement. However, after doing some searching, I found a meter being sold by All Electronics (allelectronics.com) which has the 1mA movement and is calibrated 0-15VDC and 0-3VDC. The best part is the price - $3.50 each. It is smaller than the Radio Shack meter (2.4 inch square) but I think it will do just fine. I purchased a couple these meters and I will let you guys know how well it works. Here is the URL to the meter. <http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/PM-376/PANEL-METER-FULL-SCA LE-1MA/1.html> Jerry W5JH "building something without experimenting is just solder practice" [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
8332	2013-03-11 20:59:44	William	Re: W7ZOI's wattmeter
Jerry, Nice meter. Looks like you just have to nibble a small hole in the cabinet for the meter movement and contacts to mount it. Bill N7EU
8334	2013-03-12 12:11:22	Jerry Haigwood	Re: W7ZOI's wattmeter
Yep, I like that part. I am not good at holes! Jerry W5JH "building something without experimenting is just solder practice"

I am finally getting around to building W7ZOI's wattmeter from June 2001
QST. The wattmeter uses a 0-1mA meter movement which is calibrated 0-15VDC.
Radio Shack no longer sells this meter. They have a replacement but it has
a 50uA movement. However, after doing some searching, I found a meter being
sold by All Electronics (allelectronics.com) which has the 1mA movement and
is calibrated 0-15VDC and 0-3VDC. The best part is the price - $3.50 each.
It is smaller than the Radio Shack meter (2.4 inch square) but I think it
will do just fine. I purchased a couple these meters and I will let you
guys know how well it works. Here is the URL to the meter.

<http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/PM-376/PANEL-METER-FULL-SCA
LE-1MA/1.html>

Jerry W5JH

"building something without experimenting is just solder practice"

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