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A: It is like an analog tachometer it reads RPM or speed and display in Numbers on a read out. You can find the application on airplanes and your car except it is an analogue instrument. I built one once for my car the read the RPM it was totally unsatisfactory because of the car inherited noise and on a 3 digit readout the least significant number was totally useless. The noise It can be clean out with filters then again the read out will be slow but on a car where the speed changes continuously analogue is proven Superior and most people don't care it it is 100 RPM or 101

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