Paul, Bruce and Peter Thanks for your thoughts. Peter, Did you make dummy AA cells out of wood with contacts and wire running outside the flash case ? I do use Rc car packs to power my 120J and my D1x bodies.You can also make your own pack. I see some packs as high as 5800Mah...Joe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Loveday" <[email protected]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:08:17 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: battery pack for Pentax af540 NiMH C cells are fairly easy to come by; in Oz JarCar sell them, not sure anywhere else, but any electronics stockist should have them. The ones I have seen are 4500MAh. The other alternative is the AA->C cell adapters, but of course this limits you to the capacity of AA batteries; though they are then cheaper and more universal. - Peter -------------------------------------------------- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:36 PM To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: battery pack for Pentax af540 > I have the powerpak III that Pentax sells using 'C' batteries. It > seems to work about as well as my Quantum Battery 2 packs that I used > with my metz and Pentax potato masher units. Recycle times are > fairly close. I found one minor advantage with the Pentax unit in > that when you have to do long sets of pics, you can install another > set of batteries when yours run out. Of course, the downside is that > you have to buy them each time. > > I haven't yet seen any commercial pack for the 540 other than the > Pentax one. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Saturday, March 13, 2010, 4:31:53 PM, you wrote: > > 2cn> Has anyone made a external pack for this flash or know of > 2cn> something besides the c powered pack that Pentax sells / Thanks > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
