Hi forum.
I've disassembled an obsolete wattmeter (for electrical billing - and it was found in trash, so no illegal doing at here) (Siemens "Landis & Gyr Dialog"), and just next to the main terminals - there are this extra set of smaller terminal blocks that are avaiable from the outside of the box (can see the numbers from outside of casing).
Now - I guess that the purpose of those is for manual measurement by using a multimeter.
But I also cannot stop thinking that it acually does look like there may be some spring loaded mechanism inside, and for that maybe it is possible to temporarly keep a wire or pin from falling.
Have tried to stick a small screwdriver and jerking around the metal inside, but cannot make it move - or make room to insert a wire in between.
So my question - do I get this wrong?
And second question - is there a terminology for this kind?