Another Cool Apollo Display - The Roto-Tellite
Added 2020-12-02 23:47:38 +0000 UTCOne more off my bucket list of Apollo Era displays - the cool Roto-Tellite! Enjoy!
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Mike O'Dell
2021-04-17 17:46:06 +0000 UTCPlz do a segment on how you collect all this wonderful stuff. The Roto light is way cool but where the switch contacts?? If there are really just 3 terminals, to do what was in the NASA video, a pushbutton with a 3 state display, the I/O port has gotta be pretty tricky to produce a call/response protocol on 2 wires, one common to the other side. or there are other versions with switch contacts!??! it is puzzlement! btw - before mission control got workstations with graphics displays, bunch of those lights and switches were rewired and relabelled for each mission! Changing the UI required a soldering iron!!!
Mike O'Dell
2021-04-17 17:43:26 +0000 UTCYep.
Fran Blanche
2020-12-05 17:54:03 +0000 UTCI haven't bought any of the Apollo switches. I don't want to accidentally start a collection. That red green indicator would be confusing for the color blind. What color is the indicator? Brown. How about now? Brown.
John McCormick
2020-12-04 19:11:29 +0000 UTCIs the "rotation" in order to facilitate no-removal bulb replacement once installed in a panel?
Anton
2020-12-04 08:08:27 +0000 UTCNice to see these mysterious pieces of Mission Control close up and explained!
2020-12-04 00:22:05 +0000 UTCSoon Fran will find a whole mission control console, and show us it.
2020-12-03 21:15:29 +0000 UTCSmart display. Time saving way to replace a bulb.
2020-12-03 20:23:46 +0000 UTCFascinating. Reminds you of how the 60's were so multicoloured
veritanuda
2020-12-03 19:56:51 +0000 UTCI'll have the Neapolitan, please.
David Peaker
2020-12-03 08:20:08 +0000 UTCFran has enough parts for a Mission Control and an Apollo Saturn 5. But she'll probably need a GoFundMe for the fuel...
BobC
2020-12-03 04:54:43 +0000 UTCLockheed liked to use those Roto-Tellites in their 1960 military cargo planes. Specifically the C-5 Galaxy and the now retired C-141. There were tons of these in the cockpit. I never took a liking to them because I had bad experiences where the spring strips of metal that connect to the back of the bulbs were too brittle and sometimes would just snap off after it had the lens rotated one too many times. But, like with most of the Mater Specialties products you've reviewed, there were options galore.
Matt Wietlispach
2020-12-03 04:17:00 +0000 UTCReally cool, Fran. Thanks again for showing all of this neet equipment
Simon Mikkelsen
2020-12-03 00:51:02 +0000 UTCFran rebuilds mission control, one display at a time!. Love the rotating bulb loading system.
Dr Andy Hill
2020-12-03 00:34:40 +0000 UTC
