Hi everyone,
A seemingly simple problem: As you might know, all that a photo camera's hot shoe does to trigger a flash is to close a switch when the camera release is pressed. The flash itself, mounted on the hot shoe, has a circuit with approx. 3V, and the flash fires as soon as the switch is closed.
Now, I have wireless transmitters (which are triggered much like a flash) that go into a camera's hot shoe, and I need to trigger two of them at the same time
My first though was: easy enough, I'll just use one of these dual hot shoes to mount the two transmitters on my camera:
But, it didn't work. Sometimes, just one transmitter was triggered; sometimes none at all.
Next, I tried to wire a setup myself, like this:
But the effect was the same: just one remote was triggered fine, but not two.
So, can you explain why this setup doesn't work?
Thanks for your input,
geb
A seemingly simple problem: As you might know, all that a photo camera's hot shoe does to trigger a flash is to close a switch when the camera release is pressed. The flash itself, mounted on the hot shoe, has a circuit with approx. 3V, and the flash fires as soon as the switch is closed.
Now, I have wireless transmitters (which are triggered much like a flash) that go into a camera's hot shoe, and I need to trigger two of them at the same time
My first though was: easy enough, I'll just use one of these dual hot shoes to mount the two transmitters on my camera:
But, it didn't work. Sometimes, just one transmitter was triggered; sometimes none at all.
Next, I tried to wire a setup myself, like this:
But the effect was the same: just one remote was triggered fine, but not two.
So, can you explain why this setup doesn't work?
Thanks for your input,
geb
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