Connect PW and Flashes

This what I have:

2 - Pocket Wizards Plus II
1 - OPUS H150 W/S FLASH HEAD OPL-H150
1 - Canon 430EX Speedlite
2 - Hot shoe to PC adaptors

How do I connect the opus light to the PWs?

Thanks.

badboyz24 wrote in post #5912260
This what I have:

2 - Pocket Wizards Plus II
1 - OPUS H150 W/S FLASH HEAD OPL-H150
1 - Canon 430EX Speedlite
2 - Hot shoe to PC adaptors

How do I connect the opus light to the PWs?

Thanks.

If the OPL-H150 uses the same sync socket as the OPL-L150, then you will need a male 1/8" mono miniphone plug to male 1/8" mono miniphone plug to connect the OPL-H150 to a PW unit.

If you were planning to also use the 430EX with the OPL-H150, then you can connect the 430EX, set to manual mode, to the PW via a female hotshoe to male 1/8" miniphone plug adapter. The OPL-H150 can then be trigger optically by the 430EX.

How do I get the 150 to trigger optically be the 430EX. Sorry I am new to these types of lighting.

badboyz24 wrote in post #5912735
How do I get the 150 to trigger optically be the 430EX. Sorry I am new to these types of lighting.

The H150 has a built-in optical slave trigger but the 430EX does not. So, what you can do is fire the 430EX with the PW unit and then the 430EX will, in turn, fire the H150 optically.

If you have never fired your strobe optically, there's a very simple test you can do to see it it action. Turn on your strobe and switch on the photocell power (the rightmost switch in the row of rocker switches at the back of the strobe) . Turn on your 430EX flash and when it is "ready", point it towards the strobe and press the pilot lamp to fire it. You should also see the strobe also fire.