I forgot to mention that the 4 channel unit mentioned below is a
"battery" powered unit... meaning the receiver is powered by a couple of
AA batteries. There are also "studio" versions of this receiver which
are AC powered. You plug the light's power cord into the receiver. The
receiver taps what power it needs and delivers the rest to a pass-thru
cord into the flash. If you plan to use the radio slaves with portable
flash units out away from AC power you will want to get the battery
powered version. These are extremely low power draw with no power
switches. They are on all the time but battery life is at least a year.
The seller mentioned here differentiates the units by calling them
"battery" or "studio" in the title text.
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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> The 4 channel slaves come standard with a 1/4" mono plug which is common
> on some studio flashes. They also include a 1/4" to miniplug adapter
> which is what's used on the Bees. Since they don't have a PC socket for
> triggering a portable flash I plug the miniplug adapter into a
> female/female miniplug coupler from Radio Shack and then attach a PC
> cable with male miniplug on the other end and plug that end into the
> coupler. Finding all the right cables and adapters to go on a shoot can
> sometimes be a problem. The cables and adapters tend to get scattered
> around between about 8 different camera/equipment bags.
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