Experience with TRT S-Turtle TTL trigger?

Dear all....

Just for close this case with Stuart stroy!

We never tell to anybody where can he or she buy the TURTLE products.  NEVER!!!!!   Just offer a dealer if somebody wants to test the TURTLE and live so far from Us!!!!    
We did it with Stuart case.   He would like to test the TURTLE and he told Us he lives in USA.   That's why we offer to him two dealer (Backscatter and Bluewater)  He choose one and test the product there.   Not buy it just test!!!!! 
He bought it form bluewater.. 

After he started his email bomb to Us with injurious style.. about his boughted package contain.  (Sorry but we could not seen what is in his box)

The last point when we close all communication  when he asked me about Our product! 

"Do you know your own products?"  This is cutted from Stuart mail!

It is very very insulting. 

Sorry Stuart, but this is the truth!  

This is the last post what i have written here and I will never answer in the future here in this case!  Sorry!
Have a great dives to every  UWphotographers! 

Hey Kurucz 

I really hope this isn't your last post with WP! We'd be very sorry to lose your posts relating to the Turtle and the like. They can really help people. 

Best wishes

15 hours ago, ScottAudette said:

Hi Chris, 

Not a prism, it looks like. Fired with flash. Tim, hit the nail on the head. Cleaned the glass and the trigger started working! LOL

-Scott

That seems like good and bad news. Good news that you go it working. How long have you had the housing and how many dives (ballpark) are on it? I'm just curious how "long" it took for the LED windows to get dirty enough to make the strobes not fire.

7 hours ago, Balage_diver said:

Dear all....

Just for close this case with Stuart stroy!

We never tell to anybody where can he or she buy the TURTLE products.  NEVER!!!!!   Just offer a dealer if somebody wants to test the TURTLE and live so far from Us!!!!    
We did it with Stuart case.   He would like to test the TURTLE and he told Us he lives in USA.   That's why we offer to him two dealer (Backscatter and Bluewater)  He choose one and test the product there.   Not buy it just test!!!!! 
He bought it form bluewater.. 

After he started his email bomb to Us with injurious style.. about his boughted package contain.  (Sorry but we could not seen what is in his box)

The last point when we close all communication  when he asked me about Our product! 

"Do you know your own products?"  This is cutted from Stuart mail!

It is very very offensive!

Sorry Stuart, but this is the truth!  

This is the last post what i have written here and I will never answer in the future here in this case!  Sorry!
Have a great dives to every  UWphotographers! 

And now we know the real issue. Thank you for posting this.

5 hours ago, stuartv said:

That seems like good and bad news. Good news that you go it working. How long have you had the housing and how many dives (ballpark) are on it? I'm just curious how "long" it took for the LED windows to get dirty enough to make the strobes not fire.

I've got about 50 dives with this housing in the last 14 months or so. 

2 minutes ago, ScottAudette said:

I've got about 50 dives with this housing in the last 14 months or so. 

Cool. Now we just have to wait for your report on how many dives you get with it before the strobes start acting up and you need to clean them again.  Hopefully, once every 6 months or so will be enough. Or, at worst, once, just before a dive trip.

2 hours ago, stuartv said:

Cool. Now we just have to wait for your report on how many dives you get with it before the strobes start acting up and you need to clean them again.  Hopefully, once every 6 months or so will be enough. Or, at worst, once, just before a dive trip.

I've been using the strobes since July via electrical sync. ROCK solid. And will probably end up just diving that way. The FO is for the pool stuff I do with models. But time will tell ...

38 minutes ago, ScottAudette said:

I've been using the strobes since July via electrical sync. ROCK solid. And will probably end up just diving that way. The FO is for the pool stuff I do with models. But time will tell ...

I switched to fibre a few years ago from electrical sync. Just so much easier in terms of connections and reliability. And FO makes taking the strobes off the housing really easy both underwater and topside.

Perhaps to draw a line under this:

1. It seems that (perhaps some) Sea&Sea YS-D2 and YS-D3 strobes seem to experience some issues with triggering. This is confirmed in other threads on the forum too, along with discussions with others within the industry. It is easy to lose sight that this is the actual issue that everyone seems to be experiencing. 

2. I would suggest that having to rely on the housing bulkhead glass being clean in order to get the strobes firing is rather unusual and rarely a factor that comes into the discussion. But then it depends, of course, on just how dirty they were! Real life suggests that it is almost impossible to keep them scrupulously clean all the time

3. It is well established now that good quality fiber optic cables are required to get many strobes to work. Using 613 fiber seem to be a minimum requirement, although the various 'home brew" versions seem to be equally effective. Thanks to the Wetpixel community for being so willing to share their experiences in making these.

4. We welcome manufacturers, distributors and retailers offering support for their products in the Wetpixel forums and we are keen for this to continue. Over the years, a significant majority of manufacturers and suppliers have generously provided valuable and timely assistance and advice to Wetpixel members. This is much appreciated by many members and the moderator team and we fervently hope that they will continue to share their time, experience and expertise.  

5. Whilst new products often offer compatibility challenges, may I suggest that those providing solutions ensure that the advice they offer is relevant and will assist those suffering from these challenges. With an issue as specific as the one that the OP is experiencing, providing additional non-relevant information seems to add confusion! 

Practically, apart from those that have already kindly shared their experiences, does anyone else have any experience of using the TRT strobe triggers with Sea&Sea FS-D3s?

16 hours ago, adamhanlon said:

3. It is well established now that good quality fiber optic cables are required to get many strobes to work. Using 613 fiber seem to be a minimum requirement, although the various 'home brew" versions seem to be equally effective. Thanks to the Wetpixel community for being so willing to share their experiences in making these.

Just to refresh some data I posted earlier:

I did finally get the YS-D3 strobes to fire (seemingly) reliably with my UWT trigger, after I found that the LEDs were not pushed all the way up into the wells inside my housing. BUT, the surprising thing was that they worked with my Howshot (i.e. inexpensive) 613-core f/o cables, and the 613-core f/o cables that @bvanant sent me, but they did NOT work with the 1000-core cables or the thick solid-core cables that bvanant also sent me to try. Describing 613 fiber as the "minimum" seems like it might not really tell the full story.

Hello all,

Panasonic GH5 user here with Retra Flash Pros. Looking for a strobe trigger work with the camera and HSS function on the strobe.

UWT site says their trigger states no HSS on GH5. 

Has anyone had his experience with O-Turtle manual trigger for Olympus and Panasonic with the GH5 and Retras with HSS?

Thanks all!