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Another Cool Apollo Display - The Roto-Tellite

🕑 Added 2020-12-02 23:47:38 +0000 UTC

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Mike O'Dell

Plz 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!!!

Fran Blanche

Yep.

John McCormick

I 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.

Anton

Is the "rotation" in order to facilitate no-removal bulb replacement once installed in a panel?

Nice to see these mysterious pieces of Mission Control close up and explained!

Soon Fran will find a whole mission control console, and show us it.

Smart display. Time saving way to replace a bulb.

veritanuda

Fascinating. Reminds you of how the 60's were so multicoloured

David Peaker

I'll have the Neapolitan, please.

BobC

Fran has enough parts for a Mission Control and an Apollo Saturn 5. But she'll probably need a GoFundMe for the fuel...

Matt Wietlispach

Lockheed 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.