Numeric indicators have vital roles to play across various industrial applications. Whether it’s temperature, pressure, flow, current or voltage you wish to measure and display, a panel meter is an integral device that enables you to do just that. Read on to discover more about panel meters, and the different types of panel meters you should consider when making your selection.
Introducing the panel meter
In short, a panel meter is a device or instrument that will accurately present an input signal. This digital display solution can be mounted into a control panel, and used to measure and display a wide range of signals, including temperature, pressure, flow, current or voltage.
Goodbye analogue, hello digital!
Panel meters are accessible in digital and analogue forms. Whilst analogue panel meters were the go-to of yesteryear, panel meters with digital displays offer a higher level of versatility and precision, especially in noisy industrial settings.
Digital panel meters actively smooth out signals to offer more succinct modulation. A fact that makes them ideal for counting operations, especially when compared with their analogue predecessors.
Buying a panel meter – the key considerations
Deciding whether analogue or digital functionality is right for you and your application is just the beginning. There are several key considerations you should make when purchasing a panel meter, including the number of digits, size, connections and even its colour. With the latter, red tends to be the default LED display colour, which is the case with our panel meters.
Our universal input panel meters provide a multi-input signal digital solution that ticks all the right boxes. It’s suitable for all types of industrial applications, providing the versatility and reliability you can trust when measuring and displaying a diverse range of analogue signals with a single instrument.
As well as being easy to configure and sporting a clear information display, our 2-year warranty (extendable to five years) ensures ultimate peace of mind. You’ll also need no configuration software to access its countless output and control options and accessories, which means you can hit the ground running with data acquisition.
Want a panel meter but need an easier to read display?
Explore our mains and DC powered Process Signals Displays. Displaying 4 to 6 digits with a 60 to 100mm height, these displays provide a large format alternative to the typical digital panel meter.
The bigger digit size of our Process Signals Displays means values can be read from further away. In fact, the larger the digit, the greater the distance you can read the value from.
Discover more about our panel meters (including our universal input modules and larger format process signals displays) by browsing our selection of numeric indicators or contacting our team direct.
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