Markus, Sounds like you 're-formed' that old capacitor with a bang! I've had flash recycle times be slooow when the flash was idle for a year or more. I've loaded in new batteries and cycled the flash a few times, dumping all the stored power. After 4 or so cycles, the recycle time started to go down again! Regards, Bob S.
On 12/2/06, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dough > thanks as wll, answers so fast as yours make reading the PDML so valuable > for me! > > I had a big surprise today. After the big bangs yesterday I could not resist > trying it again today and after first not showing the ready lamp the flash > now works perfectly after having him let on for a few minutes. That's > incredible for me, I really was like a small explosion yesterday and I > expected everything to be in small pieces inside of the plastic housing. > > greetings > Markus > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Doug Franklin > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:58 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Can a flash explode? > > > Markus Maurer wrote: > > > I think that is is definitly broken now but I wonder if that thing could > > have exploded in my hand and injure me severly? > > Possibly. From your description, I'd guess the the first "bang" was the > main capacitor for the flash tube blowing. Those are usually large > electrolytic capacitors. If that's what it was, the risk of exposure > depends on exactly what's inside. Way back in the '80s, a lot of > electrolytic capacitors contained PCBs, but I doubt that's true any > more. I have no real idea what's in them today. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
