It’s a treasure from my youth, that most venerable of British test equipment: the AVO 8. This was the ubiquitous multimeter to be found in all manner of electrical and electronic workshops ...

I can guarantee that all of the enginneers working on Radar in WW2 would have depended on it to set up many features of the system The engineers that followed would all have used the AVO in its ...

If you ever encounter a British engineer of a certain age, the chances are that even if they use a modern DMM they’ll have a big boxy multimeter in their possession. This is the famous Avo 8 ...