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- Original Message - From: "Brian Masney"
To: "Travis Scott"
Cc: "TexasCavers. com"
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Cave Photo Gear
You definitely want to use the capacitor. You can use the new
capacito
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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Cave Photo Gear
You definitely want to use the capacitor. You can use the new
capacitor with the 9V battery but the 9V battery does not fit in the
compartment with the capacitor. I used some tape to attach the battery
to the side of
Odds are highly in favor of the tilt-a-mite working with no capacitor at all.
Back in the day.. those flashes were powered by a 15v Carbon Zinc
battery. which had pretty high internal resistance, and would not
sustain 15 volts into a high load for very long. Since the time it
took to chang
mething?
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> Thanks for the help!!!
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> Travis
> (native Texan caver, wishing I had caves like you have there!)
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Brian Masney"
> To: "Travis Scott"
> Cc: "TexasCavers.com"
> Sent: Thur
sney"
To: "Travis Scott"
Cc: "TexasCavers.com"
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Cave Photo Gear
Hey Travis,
I had the exact same problem with several of my Honeywell
Tilt-a-Mites. I took my old capacitor to Radio Shack and I was
Hey Travis,
I had the exact same problem with several of my Honeywell
Tilt-a-Mites. I took my old capacitor to Radio Shack and I was able to
find one with the same rating. Be sure to purchase one where the
positive and negative terminals are on opposite ends. This allows you
to solder the capa
Cavers and the like,
I have been working on my photo gear lately. I am trying to get some
Honeywell Tilt-a-Mites up and running. I have a few already, but one
problem I have found is that the capacitors have gone bad in a few of them
(what are they, 40 years old?). I figured that throughout
