Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Slide Projector Dissolve Controllers Message-ID: <8957@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 15:14:09 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8957 Posted: Tue Mar 5 15:14:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 19:04:25 EST References: <914@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 > Does anyone out there have experience with dissolve controllers for slide > projectors? I have used these before and am interested in buying one. The > kind I am familiar with works with two Kodak Carousel projectors. You place > your slides alternately in one tray and the other, and the dissolve unit > controls the sequence of slide advance and lamp fade. > > Any information on available brands, features, price ranges, or distributors > would be appreciated. > I saw a really cheap and dirty do it your self version in Popular Mechanics ages ago. Go out to the hardware store and buy two push buttons and two light dimmers. Glue the knobs on the two dimmers together and hook them up to the lamp terminals on the carousel. Glue a tinkertoy to the knobs and mount the pushbuttons so that they get hit by the tinkertoy when at the end of the travel (one on each end). Hook the buttons to the slide advance. Then just keep swinging the tinkertoy from one stop to the other to advance the picture, disgusting right?