I've never designed anything with a thyristor but I suspect you could
cut in a one-shot between the output device and it's input signal. If
I recall, Tim had ideas about what was inside the receiver.
-jeff
On 3/22/07, AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I had the opportunity, last night, to do more testing with my oboy
> radio triggers. For flash work, they seem to be hunky-dory. But, I
> wanted to see if they'd work with a Winder-1 on my OM-2S.
>
> Short answer is barely.
>
> It appears that the pulse is too short to really be effective. The
> winder would partly whir and stop. A second trigger would take the
> picture and a third trigger would advance the film. Sometimes two
> triggers would do it, occasionally one, but mostly three.
>
> While at Radio Shack, getting the micro-mini plug adaptor, I found a
> Sandisk 1GB cf card on sale, with rebate for $14.95. Good enough for
> me, so I picked one up.
>
> I'll try the remotes again on a Winder-2 and will stick better
> batteries in it to see if we can get it down to a single trigger. If
> it works, I'll have to upgrade the ducttape holding that winder
> together so it doesn't look quite so scary. Otherwise, I'll have to
> use on-camera flash with the camera so I'll know if/when I got the
> shot.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> AG
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