[Leica] Off topic - possible frying problem

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Thank you Julian. Fascinating information now discovered. I shall now bother 
my friend, a car fanatic, to borrow his digital multimeter, and see what the 
voltage is.

regards

Douglas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Koplen" <jkoplen at sc.rr.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Off topic - possible frying problem


> Hi Douglas,
>
> Perhaps this link will be useful.  It describes how to use a common 
> electrical meter to measure the voltage across the contacts of a flash 
> unit.
>
> http://dpanswers.com/content/genrc_flash_measuretv.php
>
> I hope it is helpful to you.
>
> Julian (Leica Lurker)
>
> -----Original Message----- 
>>From: Douglas Barry
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:55 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Off topic - possible frying problem
>
> Thanks Dennis. Plenty to chew on there. I see from that link that two of 
> my
> old Minolta flashes and my old SB28 Nikon have very low trigger voltages
> anyway. The down side of my Minolta 4000AF is it's massive and bigger than
> the camera! Now all I have to do is find out how to test the trigger 
> voltage
> on the Sakar, but Google is my friend, and thanks to the NSA a very, very
> close friend...... :-)
>
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Dennis Kushner" <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Off topic - possible frying problem
>
>
>> LIst of trigger volts of many flashes.
>> http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html
>>
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