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19-May-2011, 08:16
Hey guys,
I picked up one of these to use with my Crown Graphic (it was a dollar plus $14 shipping). I figured I could rig up a battery for it as I've done with other equipment...didn't realize at the time that it takes a 510V battery (!). Sooo...I don't really want to spend a bunch of money on a new battery (particularly when I don't even know if it works), so last night I was thinking about other ways to use it... Anyone ever do any kind of conversion on these? I thought about hooking up a Quantum style battery pack, but a better (read cheaper) solution might be to hack another old flash and hook it up to the tube. I've got probably a half dozen Vivitar 283s sitting around, and I think the guts would fit in the Graflex battery pack... It should be relatively easy I would think to wire up the Graflex tube to the Vivitar flash. Would need to find a way to sync it of course. It could just be left in manual mode and fired at full power, or maybe find a way to mount the auto sensor on the handle, although that would complicate things.
Anyone ever do anything like this?
Cheers,
Scott
Edit--can a mod move this to the gear forum? Forgot I was in cameras LOL. Thanks.
I picked up one of these to use with my Crown Graphic (it was a dollar plus $14 shipping). I figured I could rig up a battery for it as I've done with other equipment...didn't realize at the time that it takes a 510V battery (!). Sooo...I don't really want to spend a bunch of money on a new battery (particularly when I don't even know if it works), so last night I was thinking about other ways to use it... Anyone ever do any kind of conversion on these? I thought about hooking up a Quantum style battery pack, but a better (read cheaper) solution might be to hack another old flash and hook it up to the tube. I've got probably a half dozen Vivitar 283s sitting around, and I think the guts would fit in the Graflex battery pack... It should be relatively easy I would think to wire up the Graflex tube to the Vivitar flash. Would need to find a way to sync it of course. It could just be left in manual mode and fired at full power, or maybe find a way to mount the auto sensor on the handle, although that would complicate things.
Anyone ever do anything like this?
Cheers,
Scott
Edit--can a mod move this to the gear forum? Forgot I was in cameras LOL. Thanks.