Blade Canyon
Senior Member
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:
The culprits! @#$%^%@$
Inside of flash:
Picture I ultimately got to shoot:
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:
The culprits! @#$%^%@$
Inside of flash:
Picture I ultimately got to shoot:
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