Well trigger voltage is somewhere north of 240V, so no, I will definitely not be attaching this to my hotshoe. I decided that a cheap trigger is going to be what I will use this with. Flash off the camera on a tripod is better anyways. Now I just need to rig together a bracket for my camera. He said it recycles wickedly fast. I personally love old manual autothyristor flashes and think they are the way to go for better light control, but that's me. I was asking, because apparently the PC synch socket can withstand up to 300v, but I think you all are right that even if that were true, the flash is already pushing dangerously close to that. I'm pretty sure when caps blow they can discharge even greater voltages. Yeah, I thought about buying another AF280T, but at full blast it isn't as powerful as I would like for some things(though it is servicable), and the 6s recycle time can be painful.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only way I would use older flashes would be attached to a radio > slave (and I believe that some radio slaves also have trigger voltage > limits. That being said, if it blows out your cheap Chinese radio > slave, that is a good indication you don't want it on the hotshoe of > your DSLR). Since your transmitter would have to go in the hot shoe, > the old flash and attached radio slave would need to be on some sort > of handle attachment like this oldie, but goodie. Both of those things > would probably still cost you more than just finding another AF280T > for $20 or under: > http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=Pentax+AF280T&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc > > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm guessing that after your lens incident and the old adage about >> lightning not striking twice ... If there is a sad head-shaking >> emoticon, imagine it inserted here. >> >> The safest thing you could do with that flash would be to give some >> kid a fiver, hand him the flash and tell him to drop it into a random >> dumpster and not tell you where. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> My friend that sold me the AF28T Flash that died three weeks later >>> felt bad and brought me down a Vivitar 272. It takes 2 9v batteries. >>> =) >>> >>> It looks like trigger voltage is somewhere between 150v and 290v >>> according to various sources. Therefore it is certainly not safe for >>> the hotshoe. Reading some more, the pc sync port seems capable of >>> 300v(!). So I'm thinking about pulling the center pin from it and just >>> using the sync cable. Has anyone used these old flashes with a digital >>> body? It might be even better to get a bracket for it and use the sync >>> cable, hammer flash style. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
