Mercury Tilt Switch - Old School Accelerometer
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Its a shame this stuff is poisonous :( its looks awsome
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The God of RoHS looks down on you.
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@CuriousInventor Send it to me properly wrapped for safety reasons. The safest way to ship it is in a plastic soda bottle... then fill the bottle with water... or tissue. I reuse it in scientific research.
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I HAVE JUST HIT THUMBS UP FOR BOTH OF THE TOP COMMENTS
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@CuriousInventor send to meh!
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@rhblakeman My old 1963 El Toro (Williams) had both the pendulum and mercury switches wired in parallel.
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@NevilleStyke They also used a pendulum hanging into a hole in a plate. One side of the switch action was the pendulum and the other the plate, similar to the Operation game where the probe is the pendulum and the edge of the body part is the plate. If the pendulum swung from moving the machine it made contact and triggered the tilt relay. Mercury tilts came later.
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@CuriousInventor You could send it to me; I could use some in upcoming experiments.
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@Gintaras Gyroscopes are actually for measuring rotational speed. An accelerometer is what would normally be used these days for what mercury switches were once used for.
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@CuriousInventor epa[dot]gov/mercury/spills/#di
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