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Troubleshooting hints - After-sales service
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10. Troubleshooting hints - After-sales
service
Remove dirt and dust with a soft dry cloth. Never use
detergents as these may damage the plastic parts of the
flashgun!
Forming the flash capacitor
For technical reasons it is necessary to switch on the
mecablitz for approx. 10 minutes every three months and
to fire a few flashes (the capacitor of the mecablitz chan-
ges physically if the flash unit is not switched on for an
extended period).
The batteries must supply sufficient power for flash rea-
diness to be indicated at the latest within 1 minute after
the mecablitz was switched on.
Before contacting the After-sales service please check the
following points:
The mecablitz 34 CS-2 is mounted on a camera
but does not fire a flash:
• Have the batteries been correctly loaded?
• Are the batteries exhausted?
• Has the flash unit automatically switched itself off?
• Is there synch contact with the camera?
• Has the SLAVE function selector l been set at „0“?
• The hot shoe is deactivated when a synch cable is
plugged into the synch socket!
When the mecablitz 34 CS-2 is used as a SLAVE
or servo flash unit and does not fire a flash:
• Have the batteries been correctly loaded?
• Are the batteries exhausted?
• Has the flash unit automatically switched itself off?
• Is the sensor for cordless flash operation receiving a light
pulse? Change the location of the flash unit, stop down
the aperture on the camera lens or diminish the surroun-
ding brightness.
• Has the SLAVE function selector ቮ been correctly set?
- (Digital) camera without measuring preflash: >>> SLA-
VE function selector ቮ in position 1.
- Digital camera with measuring preflash: >>> SLAVE
function selector ቮ in position 2.
• Address 1 must be set on the master for the SLAVE fun-
ction in the cordless Metz remote system!
