Remote Shutter Release Cord Dead

My Canon Remote Shutter Release Cord has died. Isn't this just a dry contact? I opened it up and nothing seemed wrong with it. Could there be a problem on the camera side? Can't I just put a meter on the cord to check it?

The wasted time is probably worth buying a new one for a few bucks at www.dealextreme.com.

jjenkins11 wrote in post #11076336
My Canon Remote Shutter Release Cord has died. Isn't this just a dry contact? I opened it up and nothing seemed wrong with it. Could there be a problem on the camera side? Can't I just put a meter on the cord to check it?

If you have been coiling it up every time you stored it, my guess would be that you overstressed the cable and it broke internally - the same can happen to headphones, laptop power cables etc.

Which Canon Remote Shutter Release model do you have? I would check the battery inside it first, it could be flat.

Take Care,
Cheers, Patrick

camera side is easy to check, see: http://martybugs.net …ear/CanonN3Conn​ector.html

a quick test with a small screwdriver to gently short out the ground-to-focus and then ground-to-shutter pins will likely tell you the camera's fine.

If the cord you have is a RS-80N3 or eBay variant, then checking continutiy between the plug pins and the switch can be done with an ohmmeter, as can the switch itself.
As has been mentioned above, its likely the cable has let go somewhere between the switch & plug - probably where the cable enters the plug...