FlexTT5/MiniTT1 and Sekonic L358/RT32 Frustration

I totally appreciate that my problems are user error (mine) but I cannot for the life of me get my FlexTT5/MiniTT1 (Canon) to be triggered by my Sekonic L358. All are CE versions

More than likely I've assumed incorrectly that I can just set the Sekonic L358 to Ch. 1, set my FlexTT5 to C1 and I should be good to go ... unfortunately not

I have 2 FlexTT5s and 1 MiniTT1 and all are set to the basic factory settings via the PocketWizard utility (ie I haven't changed anything) and I'm running the latest firmware version.

It would be really appreciated if someone more learned in this than me (which wouldn't be hard) point me in the right direction on how best to set this up

The Sekonic manual isn't that clear on how to set up the Channel, so I'm assuming when you select the channel it blinks (1 in my case) and then you hold the mode button down and turn the scroll wheel to return it to radio trigger mode does in fact set the channel ?

Is there a setting in the PocketWizard utility that I have overlooked

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated

From page 24 of the manual, "Receiving channel: A FlexTT5 Transceiver can only receive on one channel at a time. It receives on *either* a ControlTL *or* a Standard channel, not both simultaneously."

What you are describing as channel 1 is really configuration 1 and probably set to receive on a control channel rather than a standard channel. The sekonic will be transmitting on a standard channel and the TT5 will be listening by default on a control channel. As a result the TT5 will not hear the sekonic.

CB357 wrote in post #9451799
I totally appreciate that my problems are user error (mine) but I cannot for the life of me get my FlexTT5/MiniTT1 (Canon) to be triggered by my Sekonic L358. All are CE versions

More than likely I've assumed incorrectly that I can just set the Sekonic L358 to Ch. 1, set my FlexTT5 to C1 and I should be good to go ... unfortunately not

I have 2 FlexTT5s and 1 MiniTT1 and all are set to the basic factory settings via the PocketWizard utility (ie I haven't changed anything) and I'm running the latest firmware version.

It would be really appreciated if someone more learned in this than me (which wouldn't be hard) point me in the right direction on how best to set this up

The Sekonic manual isn't that clear on how to set up the Channel, so I'm assuming when you select the channel it blinks (1 in my case) and then you hold the mode button down and turn the scroll wheel to return it to radio trigger mode does in fact set the channel ?

Is there a setting in the PocketWizard utility that I have overlooked

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated

If you don't have a PW Plus II unit so that the MiniTT1 and/or the FlexTT5 units can "learn" from the Plus II to transmit/receive on the standard channel the Sekonic transmitter is set to, you will need to use the PW Utility to set the MiniTT1/FlexTT5 units to the same channel as the Sekonic transmitter. As was previously mentioned, those units, by default, only receive on the Control Channel frequencies and the Sekonic transmits on the Standard Channel frequencies.

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PacAce wrote in post #9452418
If you don't have a PW Plus II unit so that the MiniTT1 and/or the FlexTT5 units can "learn" from the Plus II to transmit/receive on the standard channel the Sekonic transmitter is set to, you will need to use the PW Utility to set the MiniTT1/FlexTT5 units to the same channel as the Sekonic transmitter. As was previously mentioned, those units, by default, only receive on the Control Channel frequencies and the Sekonic transmits on the Standard Channel frequencies.

BTW, here's a screen shot of the PW Utility where and what (circled in red) you specify the receiver channel to use to work with your Sekonic flash meter, assuming you're using Standard channel 1. If not, set the channel number accordingly.

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Thanks guys for the great information ... and the (patient) help. Much appreciated

CB357 wrote in post #9455312
Thanks guys for the great information ... and the (patient) help. Much appreciated

Just don't forget to set the FlexTT5 back to the ControlTL channel if you want to use an EX flash in E-TLL mode on top of the FlexTT5. Or, as was suggested in one of the posts above, you can set C1 to receive on a ControlTL channel and C2 on a Standard channel (or vice versa).

OK, just an update ... everything is working fine now, and as I suspected, user error was the cause

Just to confirm one point though, the Sekonic won't trigger the flash if its set in ETTL mode, only in Manual ?

That is correct, the flash must be set to "manual" in order for the Sekonic to trigger it.

As an addendum, triggering older flashes like the 550 with TT5s attached using the TT1 won't work, in general if they're off-camera. It's a known bug that I only found out about this morning, when I was going mad