Hi all,
So I am wanting to build something I saw today. Some one built a 5 foot kaleidoscope that consisted of two stained glass pains that rotated opposite of each other and then it had a back light to shine through the pains as they rotated.
I am interested I trying to make something like this, but a bit smaller for now. I am not sure how they had there drive system working to allow the opposing rotation of the glass.
My idea was two wire two motors in series and face one opposite from the other to allow for the opposing rotations of the glass. I also need the motors to be in fairly synchronous rotation as well. Do I need two synchronous motors to accomplish this or will just two regular ac motors in series will work?
I want to stick with ac also to allow for using a dimmer as a veritable speed control as well. This is all very rough and need some help working it to a working model.
So I am wanting to build something I saw today. Some one built a 5 foot kaleidoscope that consisted of two stained glass pains that rotated opposite of each other and then it had a back light to shine through the pains as they rotated.
I am interested I trying to make something like this, but a bit smaller for now. I am not sure how they had there drive system working to allow the opposing rotation of the glass.
My idea was two wire two motors in series and face one opposite from the other to allow for the opposing rotations of the glass. I also need the motors to be in fairly synchronous rotation as well. Do I need two synchronous motors to accomplish this or will just two regular ac motors in series will work?
I want to stick with ac also to allow for using a dimmer as a veritable speed control as well. This is all very rough and need some help working it to a working model.