DS 50 Probleme...

Hi Every one!

I've just reseved my two DS50's and one of them is not fireing...

It flashes on when I turne the dial ON(man. ore TTL) then nothing else happens ..I'm useing brand new 2700mha re-Charge Batt.'s

The other strobe come's on allmost straight away and fires just fine..so it's deff. the Strobe??

The only diff. is that the ON/OFF dial seems a little loose..but not that much..I've Cheked for any visible signs of flooding and there's non..(no rust ore salty res.)

Any suggestions ???

(since I don't really know this model..there might be a common prob. whit it!?)

Thanks up front...

Which housing and cord are you using?

Cheers

James

did you try to swap batteries between the strobes to check if those are the problem. One broken battery can easy be the fault.

Otherwise, it might be handy to try firing it from the cord by shorting two pins. The proper ones to select are in the manual (pg 23) ..all manuals are online at http://www.ikelite.com/downloads/instructions.html

Thanks for the quick responses!!

I'm using rechargebel's (2700mha)..had no problems with the other strobe..

My set-up:

EV-Controller attached with the orignal cord to the DS50..

I have cross tested it..swooping EV's & both Ev's work just fine on the working Strobe!

I'll try out this shorting test of yours Cerianthus...!

Thanks for your time....

I'd second the battery swap suggestion...I had one AA battery that was 'dented' at one edge of the positive cylindrical end, just enough that it wouldn't make contact on the raised pin. Binned that battery and strobe worked fine with another. The 'on' light would come on, too...but it would never fire with the one bad battery.

Try also cleaning the contacts on the inside of the door, in case you smeared some silicone grease on it? A pencil eraser should do the trick, just don't get any of the little 'rubbings' in your o-ring seal!

I have noticed sometimes my DS50s won't turn on - turning the switch back to 'off' and then back to TTL seems to do the trick...like maybe I either turn the switch too far or not far enough. But rarely...

If all that fails, I'd be checking in with Ikelite directly.

Can you fire the strobe if you set up by itself using a single synch cord and your primary synch socket? If so you may have a problem with dual strobes. In that case you might try your EV controller in slave mode.

-Hi again Guy's!-

And Thanks for all the good advise..Haven't had time to do any of the tests yet..But I have the day of tomorrow time to test the little gem again..

Can't Thank you all enough for your time...this forum/homepage is just GREAT!!

Happy "Shooting" !!!!

Hi guy's!

I've don all the above test's and still no actionI tried diff. mode and swiching on and off to make shure there were contakt..swopping batt.'s(plus tjeking there over all apperince reg. conection etc.)

Even cleand all the electical surfaces with WD40 on a ear cleaner incl. the batt.

Did the little shorting trix too..so it's a trip to the local Ikelite shop I gues!!

But Thanks for your time and effort!!

Jesper

-(not the friendly gost)-