Inon z-240 won't fire

Hi alll.

I Just got my Nauticam housing for my D7200. My old camera was a D90 and I triggered my Inons with sync cable.

Now I am using fiber optic, and that's where the trouble begins.

I have been setting everything up, getting ready for the first dive tomorrow, but I can't make the flashes fire.

I've had the flashes fire a few times, but then they stopped again.

I tried to flash my sola light directly at the slave sensor, and that triggered the flash every time.

The cameras flash are in manual.

Please telle me that I have overlooked something. What else could it be ?

Steen

Steen,

If you have been using electronic cables you have the ACC disabled. You have the ACC pushed in on the Z240's, it needs to be out.

Look at: http://reefphoto.com/kb.php?id=7

Elmer

Thanks Elmer.

My camera is not set to pre flash, so as I read the manual the ACC should still be disabled.

I tried both settings though, and still nothing.

Steen

Optical cables are much more reliable than electric cables and i had no problem at all with them on my D90, D7000 and D800.

When your strobe don't fire then there is a problem with the strobe, the cables or the camera.
As you can trigger the strobe with your video lamp it seems that strobe and cables are fine.

To fix the problem you need to start with some tests:

- check the strobe stetting in your camera's menu, especially strobe power settings as you might set them previously to low to save battery
1° try to trigger the strobes on land holding the camera in front of the strobe to see if the strobes fire

2° try to trigger the strobe holding the strobe and cable in front of the cameras strobe to see if the strobes fire with the cable
3° check that the camera's strobe can and is fully open while inside the housing, Nikon strobes don't fire if not fully open

Chris

Hi guys.

Thanks for helping out.

I think I got it sorted out now. I tried to use optical cables that I borrowed from a friend, and everything worked fine.

I didn't buy Nauticams cables, but got a cheaper one, that obviously isn't good enough. I will replace them tomorrow.

Thanks again.

Steen