Re: [EE] Crazy prices!

At 12:50 AM 2025-07-06, you wrote:
>I scored a panel meter for a project, Modutec 4x5 inch meter.  $10 on ebay.
>The best price I can see online is $118!   These used to be fairly gumball
>parts, and I had several sources for them.
>
>I'm getting old. :(

I remember paying something like $40 each for a bunch of nice moving 
coil Crompton
panel meters in the 90s. 4.5" or  5" I think. So $100+ today is not 
too shocking.

Precision 1% movements were getting expensive even in the mid-late-90s.
There's a lot more material (metal and magnet) in the precision and/or
wide angle movements themselves.

You can still get 70mm-84mm Class 2.5 and even 1.5 types at very 
reasonable prices
in China, but I don't think the big precision ones are in much demand with
accurate digital meters so ubiquitous and inexpensive.

--sp