Sorry!!!!!
I saw one of the P&B (Vivitar) guys in a meeting put his tongue on the end
of the PC cord of a 283 flash when it was turned on. Burned a hole in his
tongue. Thought we would all die laughing! Except him!!!
That individual now works for Olympus...
Brian P. Huber
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>
> Don't even joke! That's 100+ volts of DC you're jumping!
> _Somebody's_ gonna take you seriously! ;^)
>
> I won't mention names,
> but it reminds me of a story about the repair supervisor
> of a camera shop's repair department who was working on
> a studio flash system. He needed to strip a heavy wire,
> so to save time, he just used his teeth. You guess it --
> the main cap wasn't fully discharged, and he blew a hole
> in his lip.
>
> People sometimes do really stupid things....
>
> Brian P. Huber wrote:
> >
> > Using your tongue works too! (:>)
> >
> > Brian P. Huber
> >
> > >
> > > Easy flash test --
> > >
> > > remove the hot shoe from the camera,
> > > attach the flash to the shoe,
> > > short the outer threaded collar of the
> > > center post to the pin in the middle of
> > > the center post to fire the flash
> > > with something metal, like a paperclip --
> > > be careful to hold only the plastic
> > > housing of the flash, don't touch anything
> > > metal on the shoe or you might get a jolt!
> > >
> > > If the flash is OK, it'll fire -- if shorting
> > > this way doesn't make the flash fire, either
> > > the shoe's bad or the flash, probably the
> > > flash....
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