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<blockquote data-quote="Blade Canyon" data-source="post: 602059" data-attributes="member: 15302"><p>Decided to try some product photography in the basement tonight using an off camera strobe and Phottix flash triggers. I had not touched these flash triggers for a few months.</p><p></p><p>The Phottix transmitter screen was acting wacky and would not connect to the receiver. When I opened the battery case, the Energizer batteries had corroded, and they had leaked onto the circuit board inside the transmitter. I opened my Mecablitz flash and discovered the Energizers in it had also corroded.</p><p></p><p>Luckily, I was able to open the transmitter and clean the gunk off the circuit board. It worked after that. The lesson is to check your equipment regularly. For these items, I will no longer store them with the batteries inside.</p><p></p><p>You can see the design exposes the circuit board right under the battery connections:</p><p>[ATTACH]242105[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]242106[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]242107[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The culprits! @#$%^%@$</p><p>[ATTACH]242108[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Inside of flash:</p><p>[ATTACH]242109[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Picture I ultimately got to shoot:</p><p>[ATTACH]242110[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blade Canyon, post: 602059, member: 15302"] Decided to try some product photography in the basement tonight using an off camera strobe and Phottix flash triggers. I had not touched these flash triggers for a few months. The Phottix transmitter screen was acting wacky and would not connect to the receiver. When I opened the battery case, the Energizer batteries had corroded, and they had leaked onto the circuit board inside the transmitter. I opened my Mecablitz flash and discovered the Energizers in it had also corroded. Luckily, I was able to open the transmitter and clean the gunk off the circuit board. It worked after that. The lesson is to check your equipment regularly. For these items, I will no longer store them with the batteries inside. You can see the design exposes the circuit board right under the battery connections: [ATTACH=CONFIG]242105._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]242106._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]242107._xfImport[/ATTACH] The culprits! @#$%^%@$ [ATTACH=CONFIG]242108._xfImport[/ATTACH] Inside of flash: [ATTACH=CONFIG]242109._xfImport[/ATTACH] Picture I ultimately got to shoot: [ATTACH=CONFIG]242110._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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