f i Pore a ee ed Ss ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS Your color wheel kit includes the following parts: _ Aprinted color wheel [A ‘12 rpm motor with threaded adapter and cord 1 Stand 1 Two washers {One wing nut To assemble your rotating color wheel: 1, Place one of the washers on the threaded motor adapter as shown in the illustration, 2, Next, place the wheel on the adapter. 3 Follow the wheel with the second washer. 4, Apply the wing nut to the adapter, Tighten the wing nut to finger tightness, 5, Plug the wheel into any convenient 120 volt AC receptacle, Met rarented adapter aloe wheel sonia: ee Plug 120 Volt AC outlet to any conve COLORING LIGHT BEAMS Place your color wheel in front of a beam of light and wateh the beam change colors, By properly posi- EDMUND SCIENTIFIC CO... Information and Instructions COLOR WHEELS NO. 71,006 71,007 71,008 tioning the color wheel you ean control the beam color changes, Place the wheel so that the beam covers one color wedge, but no more, Watch the spot that's pro- Jected onto the wall or screen, Be sure, incidently, to place the wheel off to one side of the beam, If the beam strikes the center of the wheel the standwill block off some of the light, Now, note that the beam and the spot produced are first one color, then two colored, then ‘completely the second color, Move the color wheel fur- ther away from the light source until thebeam covers two wedges andno more, Now the spot and the beam are ‘two toned, half one color andhalfanother. As the wheel revolves it will become tricolored, and then two color~ ed again, By moving the wheel closer to or further away from the light source you can control the number of colors in your spot at any one time, ‘Spot of light is tw Beam of light passes through two wedges at once LIGHT SOURCES You ean place the Edmund color wheel in front of emall theaterical spotlights to make performers pear to change color tones, The wheel and theater spot can also lend color to live plays, ballets and rock band performances. For a flashing, scintillating color concert rotate the color wheel in front of a small strobe light, Train the colored strobe on performers or discethequedancers, For a still wilder effect train t on smoke or on bubbles produced by hand or by a bubble machine, ARRINGTON, NEW JERSEY 08007 mass-1‘The color wheel can be rotated in front of a slide projector to vary the color tones of your slides. Or it can be used in front of a motion picture projector. If you choose to mount the color wheel on an overhead Projector mount it above the stage or in front of the lens as shown in the {llustrations, Usedwith the over- head projector the wheel can lend color to wet light effects, Place a flat bottomes glass dish onthe stage of the overhead, Mix dyes and clear solvents such as alcohol mineral oil andwater inthe dish, Use the color wheel to color the results, BOUNCING THE COLORED LIGKT BEAM ‘Train your colored Nght beam on a mirror and watch it ricochet on to a wall or sereen, One mirror surface will reflect the beam in one direction, Small mirrors mounted on a flexible backing will chop the beam up and toss it randomly about the room. For patterned effects aim the beam at an Eémund mtrror= fed ball, Spots of light will instantly fill the room, And the spote will constantly change color, ‘The colored beam can be trained on 2 flexible ‘material such as aluminized mylar or highly polished aluminum fofl, As the foil 1s manipulated, flexed, and stretched smoke-Iéke flashes of color will dart about the room. The reflections can be projected onto walls or onto front and rear screens, ‘Shine Light thraugh color wheel at wirr m2 ‘The color wheel can also be used with the Edmund MusieVision motiondizers (patent pending). These units consist of front surface mirrors mounted on a flexible membrane covering a speaker, Thealrmove- ment created by the speaker cone vibrates the mem- brane and the mirrors. When a beam of light is re~ Alected from the mirror i appears on the screen a8 a swirling bend of ght, By rotating the color wheel in front of the light source you change the colors of the ight band, Aight souree eT cae tt | / MusicVision metionticer MAKE YOUR OWN EXTRA COLOR WHEELS ‘The ple wedge arrangement on your color wheel is made for controlled color change, But you may want to color your own color wheels with materials available from Edmund Solentific Co, amorphous atfect Use eater for more “rigid” ea A sot of two clear acrylicplastic discs.can serve as your color wheel base, The dise are sold In pairs of ‘six inch (No, 60,711), nine inch (No, 70,986) and 12-3/4 inch diameters (No, 70,995 ). Color filter sheeting can be used to provide the colors on these accessory discs, The filter material can be applied in pie wedge fashion for color control, Or it can be applied checkerboard style, For pseudo- random color changes apply the filter sheeting in = erazy quilt pattern, A book of 44 8x10 inch filter sheets is available from Edmund Seientific Co, (No, 70,638 ), A book of 448 x8inch color filter sheets fs also avallable (No, 60,403), And a book of six 8x10 inch sheets can be purchased from Edmund Sefentific Co. (No, 60,873), You can use transparent paints to dab color onto the disc in planned or random patterns, A set of 12 colors 1s available with a one pint can of thinner (No, 71,087), NOTE: For the prices of all the above items consult, the current (asue of the Edmund Catalog. a EDMUND SCIENTIFIC CO., BARRINGTON, NEW JERSEY 08007