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I have got 2 x 200W studio flash lighting and last night I took them with me on a shoot and when I connected them to my flash (which was attached to camera) and slightly pressed the trigger both light make a popping sound and flash repeated for 2-3 seconds.

Does anyone know what could be the problem and is it easily solved?

Ive only had them 6 months and they get used at the moment around 2/3 times a month. Just hope its nothing serious :( ive added below the ebay link so you can see what it is im talking about lol. Any one that can help me ill be so happy!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400Ws-Dig...graphy_StudioEquipment_RL&hash=item2a0b58d937
 
nicolesarahphoto said:
I have got 2 x 200W studio flash lighting and last night I took them with me on a shoot and when I connected them to my flash (which was attached to camera) and slightly pressed the trigger both light make a popping sound and flash repeated for 2-3 seconds.

Does anyone know what could be the problem and is it easily solved?

Ive only had them 6 months and they get used at the moment around 2/3 times a month. Just hope its nothing serious :( ive added below the ebay link so you can see what it is im talking about lol. Any one that can help me ill be so happy!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400Ws-Dig...graphy_StudioEquipment_RL&hash=item2a0b58d937
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I don't understand how you connected them:thinking:.

They should be connected via a sync cord to your camera, or you put the transmitter on the camera and connect the receiver to one of the flashes. They will make a popping sound when they go off, that's normal all flashes do it to a greater or lesser degree. But they should only flash once.
 
My first thought is your triggering them via built in optical slaves & your on camera flash is suppling the triggering flash. If you accidently pressed the depth of field button (according to your camera bag you own a canon) the on camera flash flashes quickly multiple times almost giving the appearence of continuous light to reduce red eye. The studio flash may have then attempted to do the same, which they aren't built for.

Turn off any anti redeye function on the camera & try again with the on camera flash on a manual low power setting so there is no pre flash.
 
I've always had the sync cord connected to the flash but ill try it through camera instead they have never made this popping sound before. The camera isn't pickin up the flash coming from the lights at all. Ill have a look at the functions see if I've set anything accidentally, I was fiddling the other day. Thanks :)
 
Ok so I had the red eye function enabled so turned it off and it's still doing same. It's just flashing randomly on its own there's no sync with the flash at all. :/ so confused!
 
I'm not sure what the problem is, but there are some different possibilites...

If the camera is triggering via a synch cord, there could be a bad contact, making and breaking and causing the connected flash to fire. This happens often

If it's a radio trigger, same possible problem.

One of the flashes could be faulty, let's hope not, it's now too late to leave negative feedback so you could find yourself without any support.

Assuming that one flash is being triggered and the second flash is acting as a slave, both would behave exactly the same way, regardless of where the fault lies. You could try switching off the one that's connected and seeing whether the problem exists with the one that's acting as a slave, that will at least identify which flash head is causing the problem if it is in fact a problem with the head.
 
Make sure the on camera flash isn't firing at all, use M mode and make sure it's closed.

Connect one flash with the sync cord and test, then connect with the radio trigger and test, repeat with the other head. If they pass individually, switch them both on.

I'm fairly certain it's a camera setting, and that the flashes will work fine when tested like this.
 
Ok ill give this a try. Fingers crossed!
 
So what's the verdict, still working? or are they destined for the great photographic scrapheap.
 
Luckily under warranty so they are going back. Tried everything suggested and still doing same so no idea what's gone on. Thank you for everyone's help tho :)
 
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