What the hell is this thing ?

A tester of some sort I'm guessing ,,just trying to find out befor eI take the gauge out .

 

electric chair switch?

 

electric chair maybe

awww **** skunx beat me to it..great minds think alike..right?

 

It says voltage regulator on it. Could be a clue. Def. some type of switch.

 

Controls for a waaay early George Foreman grill?

 

is it the black box?

 

hehe, you know it!

 

I think it's a very early gag version of an Edison telegraph machine.

The user only had to stick their finger on the probe once to get "the joke".

Nothing like getting zapped by a bunch of volts to start the laughs flying!

 

Looks like part of a growler, for testing starter and generator armatures. But then, it could be a whoydink for grinding smoke!!

 

Looks like something you go fishing for catfish with

 

Not just any electric chair switch, but the one ol' Mrs. Deegle used in Gremlins before being catapulted through her own roof!



:deegle deegle:

 

Thats what I've been using one for...

 

Gotta love the cat shark! Thats funny right there.

 

Thats a cool cat

 

I think the gauge is way newer than the panel. Cool nameplate and knife switch, probably used to control some kind of heavy duty equipment -

 

I don't know but sure looks like you were taking your life hands when you threw that switch!

 

Very early *** toy for those who like it hot? All I can see when I look at that is pain waiting to happen. But I think RustyNewYorker is right .. that gauge looks of a different vintage.

 

hmmmmmmmm.... now where have i seen that before...?



i have a galvanometer that was my grandfathers... anyone know what the hell you do with a galvanometer?

 

When I was a kid we had an old neighbor that had something like this along with some wire and a bunch of electrodes to electrify his yard and drive the worms out so he could go bullhead fishing..

 

it's used to put the smoke in your wire.

can't believe you guys have never seen one.

 

Uh Mr. Marshall, you have a call from the castle, Dr. Victor Frankenstein wondering about his labratory parts.

 

i have a galvanometer that was my grandfathers... anyone know what the hell you do with a galvanometer? [/quote] From wiki....

It is an ****og electromechanical transducer that produces a rotary deflection, through a limited arc, in response to electric current flowing through its coil. It is an ****og electromechanical transducer that produces a rotary deflection, through a limited arc, in response to electric current flowing through its coil.

Sounds su****iously like an ammeter to me.

 

Looks like an early flux capacitor to me

 

From wiki....

It is an ****og electromechanical transducer that produces a rotary deflection, through a limited arc, in response to electric current flowing through its coil. It is an ****og electromechanical transducer that produces a rotary deflection, through a limited arc, in response to electric current flowing through its coil.

Sounds su****iously like an ammeter to me.[/quote]

great now i wanna hook it up and see if I can blackout the Northeast Corridor

 

i have a galvanometer that was my grandfathers... anyone know what the hell you do with a galvanometer? [/quote]


The galvanometer is simply a device to measure current (a measure of the river of electrons flowing down a wire... current, like a river). The units for current are AMPS, so a lot of people call it an ammeter (amp meter). The Galvanometer is the special type of amp meter that is capable of detecting very small currents in the micro ampere (mA) range

 

Thats way to simple!!! It's Phyllis Diller's HAIR DRYER >>>>.