Strings designed for electric violin should work on acoustic just fine. (If there were to be a compatibility problem it would be the other way around, and then only if the electric violin had a magnetic pickup instead of a piezo. A magnetic pickup can't detect gut strings.) I would try to find more info on the tension issue, though, before trying it on a nice fiddle. But, if there's an old beater lying around the house, just go for it. It'd probably be kinda fun to watch it explode anyway.