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Originally Posted by Ampico-kid
What's involved to construct a "color wheel", and how does it work? Would it be practical to construct one large enough for this set? I assume it would sit on top of the TV cabinet? How expensive it something like this? How well might it be expected to work? Bob
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Making color on this set can be done most easily with the ready-to-fly converter mentioned in the post to Dave. This works by feeding a DVD player or other video source like a set top box into the converter, then tuning in the converter's CH 4 output using the Du Mont's tuner.
Now you need a wheel spinning at 600 RPM in front of the CRT. A color wheel for a 19 inch CRT will need to be about 46 inches in diameter to allow viewers seated left and right of the screen to get a full color view. A nice woodwork cabinet to hide the wheel and the mechanics is a good idea and it keeps pets, kids, and some adults away from the spinning disk. The circuitry to spin and sync the wheel to the color phasing pulse is not difficult and can be built using just transistors if you want to avoid ICs. Hope this helps.
All this begsthe question: Will it become appropriate at some point to move this discussion to the vintage color section?
Cliff