Talk:Solenoid voltmeter

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I think I saw one of these once - a mate of mine from New Zealand had one. It looked like a prop from a low budget Frankenstein movie so I asked him to demonstrate. He stuck the pins into a 13 amp outlet, ostensibly to show me what the movement would do. I was out of luck; it drew so much current, it tripped a breaker and thus shut down all the computers in the control room. I never did see it working as it stayed in his toolbox permenantly after that.

I'm guessing it was supposed to do the same sort of thing as the IQ tester in 'The Forbidden Planet' - it looked like it came from that era in any event.