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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-14-2014, 07:58 PM
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I'd like to know your findings wombat2go. I very much know that heat destroys most electronics! As you said, it must by a thermal problem, but I'm not electronically trained, so...
It looks like I'll need to use them as slave units only. That's okay but also mentioned on Page 27, the slave flash is only operates up to approximately 10 meters. That okay for most needs but every-so-often I go for more spaced out distances.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
07-08-2014, 12:29 PM
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I've got three older AF-500 FTZ flash units. Generally they work well. Recently I've been trying to use them in remote locations and now I have a problem.
If I do not use the flashes constantly, they go into a sleep mode to save on battery power. This is normal. My problem is, now two of the flashes don't "wake up" and I'm not able to reach them to reset the switcheshttps://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.png. I have no idea why only one of the three flashes will wake up.
In my experimentation, I have switched wireless remotes and still the same flash unit is the only one that wakes up. The same other two flashes will not. At 10-20 feet, it isn't a distance problem.
Any thoughts on this?
Now to my main question:
Is there a way to make the AF-500FTZ flash units permanently not go into sleep mode and stay on all the time? If not, is there an easy way to make an automatic flash trigger to fire the flash every minute so? That way my flashes won’t ever go into sleep mode? (I have external battery packs on each flash so they should last an hour or two.)
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