My fun meter's pegged!

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I've heard a couple times when after hard work, people say: "My fun meter's pegged!"
I don't quite understand what this sentence means. What is a "fun meter"? I guess this is an idiom. Could anyone rephrase this sentence to simple English for me? Thank you for your help!
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[nq:1]I've heard a couple times when after hard work, people say: "My fun meter's pegged!" I don't quite understand what ... guess this is an idiom. Could anyone rephrase this sentence to simple English for me? Thank you for your help![/nq]
"To peg the meter" means to make a meter hit its top possible reading. For example:
Within a week my peak flow was 850, and several
times I have pegged the meter at 900 Liters/minute.

...the meter I used to measure power out with has a max of 60 watts, but the Model 706G "pegged" the meter, so, 60+ is all I can guess at output level.
A "fun meter" is just an idea. It would measure how much fun a person is having.
The speakers are being sarcastic, or what the British call "ironic," saying the opposite of what they mean, for the sake of humor. They mean they are not having any fun at all.
Does anybody here know why "peg"? What sort of meter involves pegs?

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In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Donna Richoux
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]Does anybody here know why "peg"? What sort of meter involves pegs?[/nq]
All the analog electronic meters I have ever dealt with have pegs. Sometimes the pegs are visible on the dials. More often the pegs are beneath dials and stop the armature itself instead of the needle. I suppose that by now there is at least one generation of electronic tinkerers who have never used an analog meter.

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[nq:2]I've heard a couple times when after hard work, people ... to simple English for me? Thank you for your help![/nq]
[nq:1]"To peg the meter" means to make a meter hit its top possible reading. For example: Within a week my ... are not having any fun at all. Does anybody here know why "peg"? What sort of meter involves pegs?[/nq]
Many round ones with an indicating needle used to. Here's one:

As you can see, the peg is at the low end of the scale, but when excessive pressure is sensed, the needle can go completely around and be stopped by that peg.
There are, or at least used to be, some gages (or meters) that had a limiting peg at the high end of the scale, but I can't find a picture of one.

Skitt
It's like Jesus said give a man a fish, and he'll know where to come for fish. Teach a man to fish, and you've destroyed your marketbase.

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Thanks for the reply!
I start to get a feeling what the idiom means. I am also very impressed by the picture Skitt presents. Thank you all!

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And if there were no pegs close to the pivot point, or where the fat part of the needle goes, then the usual thing to stop the needle is the box. When the thin part at the end hits the box, the needle gets bent.
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[nq:2]"To peg the meter" means to make a meter hit ... know why "peg"? What sort of meter involves pegs?[/nq]
[nq:1]Many round ones with an indicating needle used to. Here's one: As you can see, the peg is at ... that had a limiting peg at the high end of the scale, but I can't find a picture of one.[/nq]
I used to be an officer in the Navy, assigned to a submarine. On the Electric Control Panel in the engine control room (Manuevering Room to all the squids out there) there was a meter and a control switch that had formerly had a use but had been abandoned in place. We labeled the switch the "Sweat Pump" switch (positions: Off and Fast) and the meter the "Attitude Meter" (always on the low peg). Well...it was funny at the time.
Even in my present occupation, though, we occassionally detect that a meter has been overranged by the fact that its indicating needle is bent where it was forced onto the peg.
V/R
Sam Melton

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