The easiest and cheapest thing to do if you do not want to buy a
multiconnector is making the latter (and two cables!) redundant:
Take two 5 meter TTL-cords, and cut them each in two (in a sensible
way re lengths). Solder all same color leads of the 4 ends together
and you have made your own cable set with built-in multiconnector.
All female plugs will connect to anything of the T-system - nothing
can go wrong. Of course you could take more cords to make it
'poly-multi'....
I have done this long ago before I owned a multiconnector, cutting
both 5 meter cables in 0.3 m and 4.7 meter pieces. One of the shorter
ends goes to the camera, the other to the bounce grip and both long
ends are free to connect a second and a third flash at distance.
I used solder strips for the connections, and built them into a small
box which I filled up with epoxy. It has done its job for years...
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:14:08 -0800, "earthlink"
<catsmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I am aware of how it all works,
>But what I want to do is make my own multi-connector, since as how there
>seems to be a general shortage of these for the used market, and what there
>is seems to be very pricey for what they are.
>Guessing from the general lack of response on this, you're right, there are
>no male connectors to be had, as well as female connectors.
>My next step is to dig up some of my old 70's era electronics books and see
>if I can find anything close that still might be available somewhere.
>
>Catmaster
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