Old flashes

[timk]

Well after hunting through all my fathers old photog gear I have found 2 flashes.
A Hanimex CB2200 and a National PE-165
The hanimex has the pivoting head, the National is smaller and just a tall rectangle fixed type one.
Do you think I could get wireless triggers of some sort and use with these?

[Mark Vuleta]

You may find some info on them by googling? Get a multimeter & measure the voltage between the centre firing pin & the slide contact along the side of the foot. Some camera bodies can only take up to 6 volts or so. Check your manual.

If you are in doubt, don't put it on your camera body.

If the voltage is above 50 odd volts, I probably wouldn't want to risk even radio triggers.

You can purchase an isolating hot-shoe arrangement that will handle these high voltages.

http://www.weinproducts.com/safesyncs.htm

[Photocol]

Have a look at these
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-247913004.htm

This is what I use
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...-246881643.htm

[timk]

Cool thanks for the advice guys, will look into it today.

[rjd]

I have an old cobra 500 which seems to mount & fire OK on my 350D but doesnt seem to do a decent job, the onboard flahs seems stronger and a lot more controlable (I am guessing the cobra doesnt ttl or anything).

Havnt realy used it apart from a test , is it worth giving it another go?

[Class A]

If the voltage is above 50 odd volts, I probably wouldn't want to risk even radio triggers.

The Cactus V4 radio triggers handle 0-300V.

[wirehunt]

You could always pick up a slave trigger just to play with.