G'day all.
Have managed to assemble the 2 colour field sequential colour camera/TV system to testing stage and have been testing it today.
There is good news and bad news with the results of the test.
Starting with the bad news. I have been unable to get a red/green colour picture with my vidicon cameras I tested with which are the Sony AVC-3250CE and AVC-3200CE. Reason behind that is as AncientBrit mentioned there was indeed colour crosstalk between two frames due to after image persistent lag of the vidicon camera so hence the succeeding frame/field has a ghosting of the previous frame/field hence the colour response is not instant enough for the field rate of the camera so the colours kind of melt together resulting in a yellow monochrome picture once the wheel hits a certain speed. So that was a bit of a bummer
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Now for the good news. Taking into account that vidicons lag and CCDs don't I decided to try using a 90s CCD camcorder to see if that makes a difference, whilst it's a colour camera, it will respond to colours in the same fashion as a B&W camera except in colour. Anyhow having my 90s Panasonic camcorder and a little portable B&W TV rigged up behind the colour wheel, I switched on the motor and at a surprisingly slow speed I saw on the TV a red/green composite colour picture!!!:D I was seeing shades of with in the vicinity from red to orange to yellow to green and as expected the colour was flickery. Just like with the mechanical TVs I made, there is no auto sync circuitry for the AC motor so I just finger brake the wheel to slow it to correct speed. So it's working!!!:D
Thinking about vidicon lag resulting in poor colour response from the filters, makes me wonder with NASA's field sequential colour vidicon camera system, did they built a custom vidicon tube that has pretty much minimal to no lag for that system?
Anyhow here below are pics of further construction of this apparatus and testing of it, photographing the TV making a colour picture was not possible but did some snaps anyway: