What's That Called?

[Jon Pennington]

George Roffe said:

> Dual range or dual scale.  Something like that.

I've seen the Autometer tachs that have narrow <5k and broad >5k ranges,
but those are dual range, and not smooth in operation.  I could have sworn
that the Skyline's was actually a growing scale.

> It's not uncommon on race car tachometers since the low range is totally
>  unimportant.  Hell, a lot of race cars *idle* at 3k.

Exactly.

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