Cant get studio flash trigger to work -please advise

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Ive just purchased my 1st set of studio lights which came with an RT series studio flash trigger.

Ive synced the transmitter and receiver and connected the reciever to one of the lights with its attached plug. The transmitter is connected to the hotshoe on my D7000 but when i take a picture the studio lights dont fire. The lights work fine as pressing the test button on one of them fires all three

Do i need to set anything specific on the camera ?

I was going to try without the wireless trigger but the D7000 doesnt appear to have the input to take the cable from one of the studio lights.

I have an SB800 which seems to have the correct input on the side but im wondering if that requires a specific Nikon Cable.

Any advice on what to do here guys ? Pressing the test button on the transmitter does send a signal to the receiver as its led lights up.....confused :(
 
Michael Sewell said:
How are you connecting the receiver to the head?
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There is a hard wired cable in the receiver that connects in to the sync port
 
Michael Sewell said:
May be a longshot, but the sync socket may be a poor connector. You could do with testing the receiver with another light, and use a sync cable to test the head
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I cant though as i no where to plug the sync cable in....d7000 has no port
 
pop into you local camera shop and pick up a hotshoe sync adapter you can then use the cable to test the flash
 
beeje25 said:
pop into you local camera shop and pick up a hotshoe sync adapter you can then use the cable to test the flash
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Thanks - found out the sb800 in manual mode will trigger the lights :)

Not ideal but will do me for now
 
mikeyw said:
Thanks - found out the sb800 in manual mode will trigger the lights :)

Not ideal but will do me for now
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Can also use the onboard flash to do that as well saves having a bulky flash ontop doing nothing :).
 
there are a bunch of settings on the camera that need to be looked at too

if the camera fires a hotshoe flash, and the trigger works by popping the button on top, the trigger is faulty

if the camera will not fire a hotshoe flash, you are in the wrong mode and/or have the wrong flash settings

triggers work fine on my 7000
 
Worthwhile getting a hold of one of these to test the head pc socket with you sync lead, but worth having anyway.
If you have a flash meter, you should be able to use that to trigger the head and test the pc socket too. They tend to have a PC port on them.
Your on board flash is ok, as Morgan indicated, but it only fires forward, whereas your SB800 can be pointed away from your subject so as not to add to the scene
 
Based on a recent studio session, I believe that Nikon's have a hidden mode called "give people who don't read the manual grief when using studio flash" ;)Of the 6 or so, loan Nikon's only one seemed capable of triggering a flash - the hotshoes on all the others seemed to be disabled! I think those were 7000's although I wasn't taking too much notice as I have Canon shaped hands :D

Paul
 
mikeyw said:
Thanks - found out the sb800 in manual mode will trigger the lights :)

Not ideal but will do me for now
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Maybe you left the cell/optical slave function on your strobe switched on. It is likely that it then ignores other incoming sync messages.
 
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