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Jan 11, 2012 16:26 |  #1

I have a question about firing 2 Canon speedlites using PW plus II's I have miniT1 on top of my camera and then off camera a PW plus II pc connector on a 580Ex II which fires fine and second PW plus II on a 430 exII with a hot shoe adapter and pc connecter but it wont fire am I miss something any help would be awesome Thank you
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Jan 11, 2012 16:41 |  #2

Make sure your pc connector is good. I ran into this problem and ended up being a faulty hotshoe/connector. FlashZebra was real good about a replacement. I used a multimeter and verified it was indeed the connector. Good luck.


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Jan 11, 2012 17:35 |  #3

Grumpy_one wrote in post #13687766 (external link)
Make sure your pc connector is good. I ran into this problem and ended up being a faulty hotshoe/connector. FlashZebra was real good about a replacement. I used a multimeter and verified it was indeed the connector. Good luck.

Good point I did use two different hot shoe adapters but I guess they both could be bad


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Jan 12, 2012 00:43 as a reply to  @ Amarinelli's post |  #4

If you have a pc connector on the 580 that works, swap it out with the one on the 430 and see if the problem follows. Two going bad at the same time is unlikely. Mine had a short in the wiring and was firing off the flash with just moving it around. Here's a vid (external link) with the multimeter hooked up and seeing the short. Good luck


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