Digital or analoge tyre pressure gauge?

need to get a tyre pressure guage, which one is best ??

Cheers

[G]

Digital one from tesco petrol station for me... Works great and cost about £2.99

[fizzwheel]

either / or.

TBH it doenst really matter as long as it gives consitent accurate results.

Personally I prefer the pen style analogue style guage. I find them easier to get onto the valve.

[DarrenSV650S]

I don't trust digital ones. I have the analogue sliding pen one too. Less to go wrong

[Nobbylad]

I've got this one and it's ace! Bought it as a replacement for a longer one which I had trouble getting onto the valve.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165648

[squirrel_hunter]

Now I wouldn't be able to say if an Analogue or Digital would be better. However I have discovered something interesting that might be worth considering, the accuracy of such devices...

Stretchie left me his tyre inflator that runs off of a 12v car battery to fill the Blackbirds rear up to 42psi. Its a digital inflator and automatically cuts filling once it reaches the set pressure. After it had filled the tyre I decided to check it against my digital tyre pressure gauge which gave me a reading of 43.5psi. Both tools are brand and cost unknown.

So what sort of accuracy do you need for tyre pressures? And how can you be sure of any tools accuracy?

[Stu]

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...light=pressure

[embee]

Autoexpress reviews might be of interest.

TBH I'm not sure whether digi or analogue are inherently better or worse than each other, analogues work with bendy tubes or springs and plungers and can easily be wrong, electronic/piezo pressure transducers are as good as they are made to be, so either can be accurate or not.

I have a couple of old Dunlop pencils which differ by about 2psi at 35, but I use a Halfords digi compressor most of the time which seems very consistent and at least agrees with one of the Dunflops!

The only reliable way is to calibrate your chosen gauge against a lab spec master and stick to it, otherwise decide what tyre pressure you like and see what it says on the gauge and then stick to that.

The digital ones usually come with a written guarantee that when you really need it the battery will be dead.

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

I don't trust digital ones. I have the analogue sliding pen one too. Less to go wrong

What!? I bought am analogue sliding one and it was the most inaccurate piece of rubbish ever!

Not that I'm saying digital is better, I think you can get cheap, cr@p versions of either.

I have a digital one that cost about $60 which is pretty accurate (compared to Mr Michelin's at the track) but I find it annoying because

- There is no air release button for fine adjustment.
- There is no hose, so you have to push the whole unit onto the valve.
- You have to reset it by turning it off and on after every reading (and it beeps a lot which is also annoying!)

In my mind the best gauge is one that answers ^^ issues while also being accurate