# What is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453 "2009-01-22T14:27:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/41 "2009-01-28T00:56:44Z")
It looks very similar to the bus bars that were in the old power panels onboard the 1940’s ship I served on while in the Navy. ---
**Author:** ![Linda.Slovick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Linda.Slovick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linda.Slovick)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/42 "2009-01-31T13:23:09Z")
Looks like the guts of a harmonica to me (with the cover pried off). The “diode”-looking things would just be the reeds. - Linda ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/43 "2009-02-01T05:29:28Z")
They look like many cable terminals in a modern art piece. Looks like a cableman joke, or perhaps the cameraman or grip’s joke on the cableman. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/44 "2009-02-01T05:40:39Z")
_It’s a moog skeleton_ ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/45 "2009-02-01T06:23:50Z")
Reminds me of a server? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/46 "2009-02-01T06:26:03Z")
A Digital Menorah? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/47 "2009-02-01T06:45:58Z")
Also reminds me of the old analog phone exchanges I saw in the phone company that I lived nest door. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/48 "2009-02-01T15:43:15Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > A Digital Menorah? Damn, not a menorah. :smack: … a digital mezuzah. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453/49 "2009-02-04T18:51:12Z")
Disappointing update. A representative from Cooper Bussmann, makers of the Bussmann fuses on the item, says: > [@](#): > > I am not aware of Bussmann selling a distribution panel like this. Although the fuses are ours, the panel does not seem to be ours. This was more than likely a custom made panel. Sorry for the inconvenience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this/482453.md?page=2)