Stop in for a cup of coffee

As much as I appreciate the ammeter, I don't know why they seem to have been preferred over voltmeters well into the 70s. Even the aftermarket underdash gage sets came usually came with ammeters, not voltmeters. In fact I hav etwo of those in a box in the garage. Maybe accurate voltmeters in that range were more expensive??
Sure would have been easier for Joe average to wire in a voltmeter than a ammeter to his Chevy Nova. (I added a mechanical oil pressure gage to mine)


Could be. Voltmeters aren't built much different. It's not like the manufacturers had to wait for the computer before they figured out how to make one.

An ammeter has to have as minimal resistance as possible - target is zero resistance, where voltmeters have infinite resistance...