Creating your own HOT shoe 2 extension cable.

Thanks for sharing your DIY Nabil-A

Excellent explination. I am trying to mod my cord. You have given me some great ideas.

Wanted to add my 2c.
I did this mod and I think it's great.

1. Although I live in a major city it was impossible to find a 6 core multistranded cable. The closest thing I could find was an 8 core multistranded one which also turned out to be slightly too thick for the mini-dins. DOH! Buy the cable and the plugs at the same time.

2. Shrink tubing will make a world of difference. This also saved me from problem #1 above. I replaced the the cover at the end of the cable with shrink tubing which is much thinner, so everything fit. I don't know how I lived without shrink tubing until now.

3. Put down on paper what wire colour you've connected to each pin before you heat that shrink tubing. Another DOH! moment there. Granted it was really late and I was tired. It took an extra 10 mins to measure everything.

4. I've used a 30ft cable and it works perfectly.

Do you have to use multi-strand wire? I found 6-wire single strand Phone cable at Home Depot, 50ft for $7.00.

EOS MAN1 wrote in post #2792112
Do you have to use multi-strand wire? I found 6-wire single strand Phone cable at Home Depot, 50ft for $7.00.

You definitely want to be using a multistrand wire and not solid core.

Thanx, I am going to get some new stuff tommorow.

TMR Design wrote in post #2792235
You definitely want to be using a multistrand wire and not solid core.

Not to get too technical, but why multi over solid?

Never did any good in network theory

I think it is because it will be used pretty ruggedly. Solid core is good if the thing won't be moved around a lot. When you move the wire, a solid core wire is likely to break after heavy use. Multistrand wire prevents you from losing a connection if a single strand breaks.

Multi-stranded wire is more flexible. I don't really think you'd end up breaking solid core wire, but you might find it more of a pain to work with.

I guess I learned how incapable I am of Soldering something this small. Oh well, At least I still have the Canon cord intact.

Close spacing soldering is like most things: practice, practice, practice!
I have been making these and other modifications for people for some time now...
Contact me if you need help.

Solid core wire will break after only several flexing back and forth. That's why all extension cords and cables, lamp cord, etc is always made of stranded wires.

Michael
www.MichaelBassDesigns​.com

How much do you charge to make those connections? I can send you the hotshoe cord, and 25 feet of 6 strand cable.

jmb4370 wrote in post #2801395
Close spacing soldering is like most things: practice, practice, practice!
I have been making these and other modifications for people for some time now...

Ain't that the truth! It took me several attempts to solder up my first connector, but the second one was much easier. I used a PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard extension cable - Half the amount of soldering.

A side note, when checking for connectivity, the large contact on the flash mount side has a resistor connected to it so my cheap multimeter would not show connectivity until I opened the the connector and checked it from the other side of the resistor.

EOS MAN1 wrote in post #2801652
How much do you charge to make those connections? I can send you the hotshoe cord, and 25 feet of 6 strand cable.

Click on his website link...........

Hi Michael!
I saw your web site, great job!!!
too pricey though
I have a question, how did you make the splitter, is it just a parallel connection, or is there something else?
Thank you!