Help , 602 unit with studio flash

I need some help getting my studio lights to trigger, things arent working and i'm not sure what to do.

a while back i bought a pair soft boxes and Bosh DE 300B lights from a yard sale. however so far i have been unable to use them since my body (canon 450d) didn't have a pc sync spot. I've used them with the test button with a few still scenes and bulb exposures but that's about it.

fast forward to today i purchased a RF-602 wireless trigger. tested the trigger with my speed flash and it works great. so i take the included cord withe 3.5 mm jack. plug the jack into the adapter and plug that into my studio flash and.. nothing. it wont flash.
i have 2 602 receivers and 2 flashes neither receiver works with either flash.

so either both my receivers are broken or both m flashes are broken or i'm doing something wrong. any suggestions about what to do would be appreciated.

Don't know much about the Bosh strobes, but if its trigger voltage is higher than 12 volts, the RF-602 receiver could not handle that. High trigger voltage can fry the receivers.

Lotto wrote in post #11964401
Don't know much about the Bosh strobes, but if its trigger voltage is higher than 12 volts, the RF-602 receiver could not handle that. High trigger voltage can fry the receivers.

plugged in the the pc sync cable that came with the strobes and measured the voltage from the outside to the center pin of the plug. 8 volts.

also discovered that all you have to do to set off the flash is short that pin.

measured the resistance of the jack from the remote trigger. it goes from infinite to 10 M Ohms. so its changing when it triggers but perhaps not enough?

From your measurements, it seems they should work with the RF602. But I never heard of Bosh brand of strobes, so I don't know how their triggering system work. I did a quick Google, only thing close that I could come up is this..

http://goods.marketgid​.com/goods/5/177886/

Do they have optical slave sensors built in? If they do, you can try using the RF602 to trigger your speedlight in manual mode, and see if that would trip the Bosh strobes.

I've read about the RF-602 not triggering certain strobes (may have been the Genesis series, but don't quote me on that one). The RF-602 wouldn't trigger the strobe because the strobe was wired in opposite polarity to the RF-602. So what the OP of that thread did was rewire either his strobe or his RF-602.

I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that, and I don't even know if that's your problem. But I hope it helps. Good luck!

yeah they're an obscure brand but are pretty nice. i got the whole kit with some honeycomb and color filters two soft boxes and the strobes for like $50, just disappointing that i still cant use them :-/ that link Lotto posted looks like my strobe.

it might be the reverse polarity thing i'll have to see if i can hack together something to test that