[Dave A]

Back at it and success!

I set the pair up to shoot a homemade "Test A" I created. The camera came up fine judging by a clean motor sound. The receiver did not. Some hints of intermittant scraping as it was tilted or bumped. I opened it and saw that the upper part of the disc was touching the LED port cover by the felt standoffs. I could see where it was scraping on the lower left corner and the back of the disc showed the same scrape. Look for the lighting bolt like scrape on the lower left corner of the opening on a piece of tape. Just enough to vary the speed occasionally. It is a Peter design full of electrical tape and the opaque filter over the LED's. And the filter shows some white dots that may be of a decay of some sort.

The LED mask assembly has warped over the years and is protruding just enough to touch the disc beyond the felt.

I moved the disc off the mount to get to the motor mounts and took the two full washers from the bottom back of the mount and moved them ahead of the motor flange to give a small tilt forward at the top of the disc. Just enough to clear and be stable.

I also tested my earlier hand-capictance observation. It seems to not be a factor in this new version of the tests.

With room light it was still garbage. Then I used my 8mm light bar for maximum light. It worked. Vertical sync (the only sync you can get) was touch and go. The pic is a bit off but I was a one-armed-paperhanger holding the lamp and a camera. I am not sure if the camera can really do a grey scale pic after all these years. The contrast and brightness controls seemed to do their functions. LIghting is a big factor. That test is for another day.

Turn pics 2 and three CW. I sent them proper and they did not make it here

Go Phils 2022.