Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Autoflash reliability
From: "Doug Richardson" <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:12:36 -0000

Akhil Lal <alal01@utopia.poly.edu> wrote:

I have in my closet four dead autoflashes (Rollei, Agfa, Minox &
Sunpak).  All four were used lightly and died without any apparent
cause.

>Of all the photographic apparatus I own, flash units seems to be the
most unreliable. Comments anyone ?


Hello Akhil,

The magic words are "used lightly". Some of the components used in the
circuitry will die if they don't have voltage applied regularly. The
manual which came with my Metz flash says if it's not being used
regularly, switch on every few months and fire off half-a-dozen
flashes.

Regards,

Doug Richardson