Multimeter Vote. Analog or Digital?

[fidowanttobe]

What's your preference?
I/we at work have several of several brands and value and I far prefer the analogs.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

An electronic technician (me) says have both.
Digital if you need an accurate measurement, analog to see "trends". In other words suppose you want to check a variable resistor like a fuel gauge float. Analog is better watching how the needle moves throughout the range. Digital you'd just be watching numbers flash.
Both have their merits.

 

[caver]

Trained in the Navy on a Simpson 260. Both skills are good to have.

 

[Phil Timmons]

An electronic technician (me) says have both.
Digital if you need an accurate measurement, analog to see "trends". In other words suppose you want to check a variable resistor like a fuel gauge float. Analog is better watching how the needle moves throughout the range. Digital you'd just be watching numbers flash.
Both have their merits.

Yeah BOTH.

Always fun to show the kids (school) a Capacitor Charging up on Analog Sweep Meter.

Now we do HMI (Human Machine Interface) screens to operate on top of the PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) with Analog Inputs. We tend to show both on the same screen -- has a good look.

 

[Roadworthy]

I have both though mostly rely on my Fluke digital.

 

[RjCorazza]

I generally use digital meters, and gravitate to a data logging capable Radio Shack meter. I occasionally use an analog meter for the nostalgia. One is a Heath Kit meter my Dad got me for Christmas when I was 9 or 10. I learned to solder to assemble that kit. The other analog meter was a kit my Dad assembled, and I enjoy using that because that's the meter he taught me how to use and read the measurements. It was made by Knight.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Here's are a few, I'm sure I have 20+ meters.
Anything Heathkit either I or my wife made.
The Simpson 230 was Dad's. The NLS digital I got from a friend in California, he got it in late 60s from an inventor who said it was "the world's first digital meter"(?). It's from late 60s, vacuum tube and glass etched numbers flip down by relays. Heavy as lead.