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Old 10-29-2014, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by rld-tv01 View Post
I was thinking about building a lens disk mechanical camera and monitor. . . . . . . I like the idea of sandwitching two disks with the optical beads between the layers to keep the beads from flying off and killing someone.
Just wondering why you chose the rather large 13mm size?

That will force you to make a the wheel larger than it otherwise would have been.

Unless you make the wheel huge, I don't see why mounting a light plastic lens would be any less safe than a CBS color wheel.

The CBS wheel (with 6 sectors) ran 1440 rpm, in the 24 fps 6 interlace system.

At 15 fps per second, a Nipkow disc will only turn 900 rpm, and half that if it were interlaced with two spirals that were offset by one-half line width.

James

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