john_rogers8 Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Is it safe to use a sunpak 120J amd nikon F100 off of hotshoe or pc port ? is the voltage safe or will it fry the camera circuitry? I had a safe sync but it actually broke and wont transmit the signal to trigger the flash and i have jobs coming up soon and cant wait for the mail to get a new safe sync. is it safe? thanks. pls email me at vidsolve@hawaii.rr.com i dont seem to get responses automatically. thanks!!! john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmarkpainter Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 I have used the 120J on a D100 with a Hotshoe to PC adapter. Everything is still working :) jmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_hovland Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Get a Wein Safe Synch to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_rogers8 Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 thanks guys. I found out the voltage of the 120J is around 14 V by putting my voltmetter into the place where the household prongs plug into the body of the flash. is that accurate way to meassure voltage of the flash?? I had heard on this site someone said the f100 can handle around 25 V. But i dont know. I have been using the wein safe sync but one day i pulled out the pc and it pulled out the whole metal guts of the wein, and that days job i had no flash and did not know it, even though it pulled out after i was fiished shooting. that is a handy piece of hardware. i used it also to have convenient location to plug in pc caable. go figure....john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picturesque Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 I was under the impression that Nikon's upper limit for sync voltages on their higher end/pro level cameras is 250 volts. At least, I read this in a D100 manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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