Thank you all (esp @Colin.Smith1205 - Also, nice to see you're still involved @dceejay, post retirement )
This now all works perfectly: instance value gauge shows a variable colour coded threshold segment and historic-value graph has a line series showing the threshold value and history (last 4 hrs)
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