VU meters

[Tripqzon]

Well, Now lets see my Heathkit Audio Control Center which has a very nice pair of output meters is a pass through design where the speaker conductors go into one set of connectors and come out a different set of connectors and then on to the speakers.

My Radio Shack APM-200 meters require a lead all there own so you would run a lead from the speaker connections on an amp to the meters (where it dead ends) and another set of leads to the speakers themselves.

I guess it would depend on the meters.

Can anything be damaged if you just take a second set of leads from your amplifier output and hook to the meter input and leave the meter output terminals unused? I have a set of Radio Shack APM-100 meters and have hooked them up in that manor in the past without any ill effects. Is this bad? Of course the speakers are still hooked up to the original wires from the amp. I did this intentionally because the speaker wires were too large for the meters terminals screws.

Paul