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[OM] Re: Attn. Mark! Flash question here.

Subject: [OM] Re: Attn. Mark! Flash question here.
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:48:14 -0400
I guess it depends on whom you want to call cheap for not installing the 
requisite circuitry.  It used to be that at least some of the flash 
makers installed a low voltage tap off the 330v supply.  The T-32 does 
and all the Sunpaks I'm aware of do.

Chuck Norcutt

Mark Dapoz wrote:

> Walt Wayman wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am aware that when using the Quantum Turbo battery with the FL-50
>>or FC-50 that the 4 internal AA batteries are still required to power
>>the TTL circuitry, LCD display and sync circuit. But with the FC-50,
>>does the power for the modeling lights in the macro flashes come from
>>the Quantum or from the AA's?
> 
> 
> I don't have an FC-50 to test with, but I bet the FC-50 uses the Turbo's
> 330V only for the flash tubes.  If you use an Olympus SHV-1 battery pack
> then then modeling lights would probably be powered by the SHV-1 since
> it also provides the 6V low voltage power for the flash circuits.  It's
> too bad Quantum was too cheap to put in a 9V to 6V regulator in the cable
> so that the FL-50/FC-50 can run without batteries.  Then you would be able
> to power your modeling lights from the Turbo.
>                                       -mark



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