DIY: Ready beeper for Alien Bees strobes

A DIY project if you'd like to add a "ready beep" to your alien bees strobes.

Simple idea, a light sensor will sense the ready lamp and initiate a buzzer

schematic and details can be found here

I'm not totally sure how useful this would be, seeing as how you can set your AB's to not turn on your modelling light until the strobes are ready to fire, and I think a beeping after every shot would drive me insane

With a 2 sec. recycle tme I dont see how this could do anything but annoy people. But thanks for the link anyway, interesting.

that would be really annoying if all your strobes had those and you were running them at different powers, that's alot of beeping!!

its an excellent idea that copys the idea of thoes high end power packs.

good find, but unless your doing fashion or something where your constantly on the trigger or where white balance / color temp is super critical, then id say skip out on the project.

StealthLude wrote in post #2237915
its an excellent idea that copys the idea of thoes high end power packs.

The big difference is that when using a power pack and heads, there's usually only one power pack to monitor for full recharge (one beep). If you had three or four lights - each with a beeper - you'd go nuts with counting all the beeping.

Like others replying, I think merely looking at the modelling lights (or merely waiting for a known time interval) is enough to tell me that the lights are all fully recycled.