RF 602 Reliability Poll

How reliable have your RF 602's been

  • Failed after less than a month

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • Failed after 1 - 3 Months

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Failed after 3 - 6 Months

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Failed after 6-12 Months

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Still going well after less than a Month

    Votes: 6 14.3%

  • Still going well after 1 - 3 Months

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • Still going well after 3 - 6 Months

    Votes: 17 40.5%

  • Still going well after 6 - 12 Months

    Votes: 17 40.5%
  • Total voters
    42
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I want to buy a set of flash triggers comprising transmitter and 3 receivers. The PocketWizaeds are to expensive for me so I was thinking of going for the Elinchrom Skyports as a good compromise between cost/reliability and range.

Research shows up a lot of people that are happy with their RF 602's and also quite a few complaining about reliability and quality issues. So before going for the Skyports I thought I would just get some feedback on the RF 602's
 
I have 3 602's, mine have never failed in around 2000 shots.

I do however have a habit of forgetting to switch them off.

I find myself wanting Pocket Wizards only because thats what the big boys use :(
 
kluen said:
I have 3 602's, mine have never failed in around 2000 shots.

I do however have a habit of forgetting to switch them off.

I find myself wanting Pocket Wizards only because thats what the big boys use :(
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Mine are the same, I have 2 sets of receivers and they work flawlessly with flash and with triggering remote cameras. Probably around the same number of shots too...

It's very true about forgetting to switch them off, they swallow the juice if you leave the receivers on. My advice is to get a AAA battery charger and some rechargeable batteries.
 
6 receivers, 2 transmitters.

No misfires or break downs, and I had one of the first sets after launching.
 
I was shooting a charity bike ride yesterday so the camera was mounted on the back of a motorbike yesterday in the rain, firing from an RF602 mounted on the flash slot, with gaffa tape holding it securely in place.
The transmitter was mounted in a flash/brolly mount on the handlebars, held on with gaffa tape.

So it put up with all Bristol could throw at it, rain drops, spray, vibration from the bike and two commuter cyclists who decided it would be fun to try and knock the camera off :bang:

Had mine about a year. Work over quite a distance too
 
RF-602's are the dogs wotsits... Far, far better than a lot of other solutions too - especially for the price.

My only gripe is that I'd like to see an on/off switch on the transmitter as well. As it stands, I just whip the battery out when I'm storing the units.

Now if Yong-Nuo were to do a set with full TTL capability, Pocket Wizard would go out of business! :D

Si
 
I think they're excellent! But your poll doesn't fit my experience.

Basically I bought set and the battery cover of the transmitter was faulty, and it only fired inconsistently. On the receiver, the switch wasn't positive and although it worked mostly, sometimes it didn't turn on and I was concened it might fail over time. FITP swapped them for me.

My solution was to simply buy a spare set, to go with the four other units I now use. I'm not a heavy user but I've had no problems at all. I've tested them at over 100m range and tomorrow I have a job where I'll be using all four and have no doubts at all.

They are better than the basic Pocket Wizards in that they have a wake-up facility which is very useful indeed, plus I think they're neater. I sold my Pocket Wizards :)

Basically, they're so cheap that if you're worried, carry a spare. And spare batteries!
 
Id like:

a lock-down on the transmitter and receiver,

an on/off button on the transmitter,

the on/off button on the receiver to be much further forward,

a pc/3.5mm socket on the receiver,

fewer channels but with a rotary switch on the transmitter to choose (so I can have different guns in different groups, and a 'fire all' obviously,

optical slave, like their old ctr.

That's it, otherwise I cant fault them.
 
Kris said:
Id like:

a lock-down on the transmitter and receiver,

an on/off button on the transmitter,

the on/off button on the receiver to be much further forward,

a pc/3.5mm socket on the receiver,
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with you, with you, with you, mine came with a cable that does big and little jack

best triggers I've ever had reliability and range wise, taken a 6ft drop onto concrete mounted on a 430ex and been fine :p

be nice if the reciever had a pin to lock it to a flash foot too as I often use them for wall mountings (duck tape is your friend)
 
I have some proprietary Sunpak cables that go from sunpak to pc, and use some early Elinchrom heads that have the weird Amphenol socket, whose cables go amphenol to pc.

Currently, I need a pc to hotshoe adapter (the Pixel ones are excellent on Ebay) to make this final connection to the RF602 receiver. With a pc socket, I wouldn't need to.
 
Kris said:
Id like:

a lock-down on the transmitter and receiver,

an on/off button on the transmitter,

the on/off button on the receiver to be much further forward,

a pc/3.5mm socket on the receiver,

fewer channels but with a rotary switch on the transmitter to choose (so I can have different guns in different groups, and a 'fire all' obviously,

optical slave, like their old ctr.

That's it, otherwise I cant fault them.
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:agree:

I think it's time for Graham (FiTP) to fire off an email to Yong-Nuo... RF-603's anyone? :D

I'm probably going to add another set of RF-602's so that two people can shoot from the same set-up and also as a set of spares! :)

Si
 
Oh, and for Yongnuo to standardise on the frequencies at 2.4GHz.

They changed from the PT04 to the CTR range, for no obvious reason. :(
 
Kris said:
Id like:

a lock-down on the transmitter and receiver,
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I know I am probably missing the point here (or just being thick), if there is no lock down, how do you keep it on top of the camera etc?

Thanks
 
Shutterbox said:
I know I am probably missing the point here (or just being thick), if there is no lock down, how do you keep it on top of the camera etc?

Thanks
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Friction! :)

It's quite a snug fit and I wave my camera around a fair bit but it's never fallen off.

Si

@Kris... Glad to see someone else is on the same wavelength! :D
 
:)

Oh, also....

ability to work with high trigger voltage guns (if I worked for Yongnuo, PW could look out!)
 
The only fault is that vivitar 283 trigger voltage kills them if some can find a cheep way around that I would be happy however they are great on my Courtenay studio lights and work well with yn460-11 strobes
 
Test your 283 with a voltmeter, all mine (4) are under 10 volts and work fine.

Sorry to hear that David. Yep, its a design fault having no lock down, even though it was on their earlier triggers. Console yourself with the fact that the Elinchrom Skyport suffers the same design flaw, is a lot bigger (so easier to knock off) and is much more expensive to replace.
 
Spiritflier said:
Friction! :)

It's quite a snug fit and I wave my camera around a fair bit but it's never fallen off.

Si

@Kris... Glad to see someone else is on the same wavelength! :D
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My transmitter fits nixely, never had a problem with it falling off. The recievers on the othe hand are a really worry. My triggers still work well despite having fallen off their mount a number of times, so +1 for durability, but it's yet to be tested from a flash stand at full height...
 
Another fan here. If I was using them all day every day, then I might consider the PW, however the fact you can buy a couple of backup sets and still come in cheaper than a single PW means that they're spot on for the light to medium user.
 
is all good I still really rate them,

wandered across the phottix version of a plus II this morning anyone got any details?
 
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