Inon strobe with Sea&Sea 4 pin sync cord

[LyN 0]

I am planning tu buy the new Z240 strobe for Inon, but as today, I have a Matthias Heinrichs Digital Adapter with a Sea&Sea 4 pin port. <_<

 

As the 5-pin Sea&Sea sync cord N can be used to connect Inon strobes to Nikonos ports (just as with Sea&Sea strobes) I was wondering if a Sea&Sea sync cord S (4 pin) could be used to connect the strobe to a Sea&Sea port.

 

I already know that the S cable can be phisically connected to the strobe, but I don't know if the strobe will work with this configuration.

 

Does anyone know anithing about it?

[craig nelson 4]

HI

 

Firstly, I You will need the Sea & Sea cord N to connect this strobe to you camera, The Sea & Sea 4 pin port is not Compatible with the 5 pins standard nikonos bulkhead.

 

If your using a Sea & Sea 4 pin i suspect that you have previously used the YS60 or Ys50 with you TTL converter.

 

Sorry to say, but i think you will need a New Digital Adapter 5 pin Nikonos style.

 

regards

 

craig

 

better off trying Christain Weirkamp at HW for more information

[LyN 0]

Firstly, I You will need the Sea & Sea cord N to connect this strobe to you camera, The Sea & Sea 4 pin port is not Compatible with the 5 pins standard nikonos bulkhead.

Craig, if I am not wrong, the Sea&Sea cord S has a 5 pin connector for the strobe head and a 4 pin connector to connect to the camera, as Sea&Sea DUO strobes can use both, the N cord or the S cord, depending on the port of the housing/camera/adapter.

 

So I think I may physically connect the Sea & Sea S cable to the strobe (by the 5 pin end of the cord) and to the S Adapter (by using the 4 pin end of the cord).

 

But what I do not know is if the circuitry on the Inons is compatible with a Sea & Sea port on the host. I think THIS is the issue.

[LyN 0]

Well, I have been reading around and asking some questions to Inon, and I think I may have the answer. I post it here because I think it may be useful to someone, who knows.

 

It seems that the Inons circuitry is not of the DUO kind, which means it is only prepared to understand a real Nikonos TTL signal. There are some differences between the signals from a Nikonos or a Sea&Sea port and the Inons are not prepared to be connected to Sea&Sea ports, although physically the connection is possible.

 

I have also found that it is possible to build and adapter to convert a Sea&Sea signal to Nikonos, and I think that Mike Finger (Mike Dive) knows how to do it. In fact I am waiting an answer from him to confirm he can build an ad hoc solution for that issue!

 

If there is some interest, I will post here the final answer.

[mikedive 0]

Hi LyN ,

 

you will get an direct answer soon ...... the first here :

 

The strobe will work also with the Sea&Sea Motormarine 4 pole synccable caus the

Trigger , Quench and Ground pinns are the same. But there is a problem with the TTL converter getting it´s energy out of the missing Ready line and I do not know if the Trigger line of the Inon strobes is strong enough to serve too ...... I cannot test right now cause my last stock is sold today ... waiting for new D2000w.

The YS60 and the YS50 are strong enough ........ to serve the Digitaladapter , and the TTL-C3 converter ( the TTL-IR converter is out ) also in the S version.

 

But notice the INON strobe will not work with the Motormarine II and the EX

 

Michael

[LyN 0]

you will get an direct answer soon ...... the first here :

 

The strobe will work also with the  Sea&Sea Motormarine 4 pole synccable caus the

Trigger , Quench and Ground pinns are the same.  But there is a problem with the TTL converter getting it´s energy out of the missing Ready line and I do not know if the Trigger line of the Inon strobes is strong enough to serve too ...... I cannot test right now cause my last stock is sold today ... waiting for new D2000w.

The YS60 and the YS50 are strong enough ........ to serve the Digitaladapter , and the TTL-C3 converter  ( the TTL-IR converter is out ) also in the S version.

 

But notice the INON strobe will not work with the Motormarine II and the EX

Then it's clear. There is too much risk involved in trying the Inon with the Sea&Sea 4 pin cord.

 

But I have buddies using Z220s with 5-pin DA-IRs without problems, so I guess in this setup it works. As I also own a YS60TTL/S and a DA-IR-S, the right solution will be the T connector from N & S to S, to be able to connect the Sea&Sea and the Inon to the DA. Is that right? I will wait for your news!