Cybersync repeater mode

[DDCSD]

I am wondering if I can fire a strobe/flash/camera connected to a CSRB with another CSRB in repeater mode by pushing the test button. About to order and I can't seem to find if the test button on the receiver will fire anything or not.

I'd like to use the receiver in repeater mode to fire a remote camera, so that I only need to order 3 transmitters and can get just get an extra reciever instead.

[Titus213]

The only misfire I've ever had with my Cybersyncs was when I was trying to trip a flash with another receiver. Brain fade...it didn't work, which is really no surprise.

I'm not sure what config you want to try. I have two transmitters in part because I want to go to remote camera firing with one. My understanding is this takes a transmitter in hand and a receiver connected to the shutter on the camera. You also need another transmitter on the camera on a different channel to fire the remaining receivers.

I don't have a proper shutter cable to connect a receiver to but if there is something else I can test for you I'd be happy to try. I have 2 transmitters and 3 receivers. Available here and access to several more of each. Seems my whole family has them now...

[DDCSD]

What I am wondering is if pushing the test button on a receiver (with that reciever in repeater mode) will cause the other receivers on the same channel to fire.

I can't figure out how to word this and have it make sense. :)

[PacAce]

I am wondering if I can fire a strobe/flash/camera connected to a CSRB with another CSRB in repeater mode by pushing the test button. About to order and I can't seem to find if the test button on the receiver will fire anything or not.

I'd like to use the receiver in repeater mode to fire a remote camera, so that I only need to order 3 transmitters and can get just get an extra reciever instead.
The repeater mode is used to extend the range of the CyberSync remote system beyond the normal 400 ft. Is that what you want to do? Or do you want to be able to fire a remote camera and associated remote flash with a handheld transmitter?

If it's the latter, you'll need two transmitters (one in your hand and another on the remote camera to fire a remote flash) and two receivers (one on the remote camera to trigger the camera and another on the remote flash to trigger the flash). That's a total of two transmitters and two receivers to fire a remote camera and its remote flash. If the flash is mounted on the remote camera, then the extra transmitter and receiver will not be required.

Both the repeater mode operation and remote camera and remote flash operation is detailed in the CyberSync manual (http://www.paulcbuff.com/manuals/cybersyncmanual.pdf).

[PacAce]

What I am wondering is if pushing the test button on a receiver (with that reciever in repeater mode) will cause the other receivers on the same channel to fire.

I can't figure out how to word this and have it make sense. :)

OK, I see what you're trying to do now. You want to use a receiver as a transmitter instead of getting another transmitter. This should be something that someone with two CyberSync receivers should be able to verify for you, with one receiver in repeater mode and the other in the normal receiver mode.

[DDCSD]

The repeater mode is used to extend the range of the CyberSync remote system beyond the normal 400 ft. Is that what you want to do? Or do you want to be able to fire a remote camera and associated remote flash with a handheld transmitter?

If it's the latter, you'll need two transmitters (one in your hand and another on the remote camera to fire a remote flash) and two receivers (one on the remote camera to trigger the camera and another on the remote flash to trigger the flash). That's a total of two transmitters and two receivers to fire a remote camera and its remote flash. If the flash is mounted on the remote camera, then the extra transmitter and receiver will not be required.

Both the repeater mode operation and remote camera and remote flash operation is detailed in the CyberSync manual (http://www.paulcbuff.com/manuals/cybersyncmanual.pdf).

Yep, I understand all of that, but the receiver has a test button. I am trying to find out if this test button actually does anything when pressed other than switch the unit in and out of the repeater mode.

I would think that pressing the test button would operate like the test button on the transmitter, since I see no other purpose for a test button on a receiver.

[DDCSD]

OK, I see what you're trying to do now. You want to use a receiver as a transmitter instead of getting another transmitter. This should be something that someone with two CyberSync receivers should be able to verify for you.

Bingo!

I know how confusing this sounds thanks for sticking with me!

[Titus213]

AMAZING! It fires the strobe.....

I have a receiver in repeater mode and another receiver hooked to a flash. When I press the test button on the receiver in repeater mode it fires the flash.

[PacAce]

AMAZING! It fires the strobe.....

I have a receiver in repeater mode and another receiver hooked to a flash. When I press the test button on the receiver in repeater mode it fires the flash.

Well, there you go, Derek. There's the answer you were hoping for! :D

[Titus213]

It would still seem that while you can probably fire a camera remotely with a repeater mode receiver, firing a flash for that camera would have timing issues.

[DDCSD]

AMAZING! It fires the strobe.....

I have a receiver in repeater mode and another receiver hooked to a flash. When I press the test button on the receiver in repeater mode it fires the flash.

Awesome, thanks Dave. Just what I wanted to hear. I Was hoping that was what that test button would do.

Well, there you go, Derek. There's the answer you were hoping for! :D

Exactly what I was looking for. :lol:

Now I can order an extra receiver that will cover me 3 ways. Extra remote trigger, repeater or of course receiver. A flex option!

[PacAce]

It would still seem that while you can probably fire a camera remotely with a repeater mode receiver, firing a flash for that camera would have timing issues.

The remote camera would still need a transmitter unit set to a different channel to fire a remote flash connected to a receiver unit set to the same channel. You won't be able to fire both the camera and the flash with the repeater receiver, obviously, because, as you said, of the timing issue.

[DDCSD]

It would still seem that while you can probably fire a camera remotely with a repeater mode receiver, firing a flash for that camera would have timing issues.

Certainly. What I would do is actually have a transmitter mounted on that camera set to my strobes' channel. I would actually be holding the remote "transmitter", and would have that and the receiver triggering the camera on their own channel. There fore the strobes would fire from the remote camera's TX unit, and not the units used to fire the camera.