Elinchrom unreliable triggering: Skyport Eco and D-lite it 2

Hi,

My triggering has been growing increasingly unreliable with my 3-year-old entry-level Elinchrom kit, 2 D-lite it 2 heads and a Skyport Eco trigger.

Had a shoot on Thursday night, using a single strobe head (triggered by Skyport) and two Yongnuo speedlights (triggered by optical slave).

With the Skyport, I could only get 4 or 5 shots off before it would stop triggering. I have to turn the flash head off and on again, and then it would work for another 4 or 5 shots. After a few rounds of this, with the model standing there giggling, I swapped to my Cactus trigger and receiver on one of the Speedlights, and put the Elinchrom on optical slave mode. Far from ideal, but it worked.

The battery in the Skyport Eco trigger is brand new, out of the package right before the shoot Thursday night.


Any help? Any way to reset it, use a better channel, etc?

I have another shoot Saturday night where I won't be able to put the Elinchrom on optical strobe. Gotta get it reliable before then. I may be able to use the Cactus receiver directly on the strobe, but it's much more cumbersome than the Skyport. Will try that with tonight's shoot.

Little update.

I did a factory-reset on both my D-lite it heads as well as the Skyport trigger. One of the heads works reliably, the other one stops responding after just a handful of flash pops. I've marked the reliable one with blue tape so I can tell them apart in the future :P

The Cactus triggers seem to work fine; I can use my one trigger and three receivers to run the Elinchrom and two Speedlights simultaneously. I'll probably resort to that this weekend; there'll probaby be other photographers around so optical triggering won't be an option.

Still need to see if I can figure out why this one head isn't receiving the signal properly.