PixController Slave Flash
Controller
Copyright © February 2005,
PixController Inc., All rights reserved.
Introduction
| Introduction | Specs | Settings | Connecting Flash Units | About Slave Flash | Building Systems |
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No cables are needed! Photo flash detection is done by a "Photo Flash Detector" on the board! |
Our new slave flash controller will let you capture bright and brilliant night photos with the addition of another flash unit. Our controller is extremely power efficient and will increase flash unit battery life by only keeping the flash powered at night. The new controller can work as a remote slave flash, or in the same case as your trial camera. It can also see IR light and be used as an IR remote slave flash. With a learning mode you can teach our controller how many pre-flashes your digital camera has, so any digital camera can be used with our controller! This system can also be build into a separate case and be used as a remote slave flash. It will detect out to about 100 feet, and it can see IR light too. All you need to do is place an IR filter over the photo flash and you are ready to go. 
Comes with a 6 month Warranty |
Patent
Pending Design Main Board Features
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Flash Learning Mode - Just point your digital camera at the slave flash sensor and the pre-flash count will automatically be stored in an on-board memory! | ||
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Attach any flash device including the most popular flash units such as the Vivitar 2000 and ProMaster FM600. | ||
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Can be used inside your trail camera or setup as a remote slave flash. | ||
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Flash only active at night to save on battery life! | ||
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Adjustable refresh mode so your flash unit stays topped off at full charge for any flash unit! | ||
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Diagnostic LED! | ||
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Can switch up to a 400V flash unit! | ||
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Low power board consumption. | ||
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Can detect remote flash out to 100 feet. | ||
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Can detect IR flash. | ||
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Small & Compact board size to construct small units. | ||
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Calibration POT for Day/Night sensor. | ||
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Easily change slave flash setting with an on board DIP switch. | ||
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Advanced microprocessor control! | ||
Board Includes
PixController Slave Flash Board
Day/Night Sensor for remote mounting
Flash Sensor for remote mounting DIP Switch
board setting waterproof stick |
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DIP Switch Setting
Learning mode - teach the unit the pre flashes your camera
has.
Refresh mode - 4 setting to adjust how often the flash cap is
topped off (only done at night) - off during the daylight hours.
Refresh pulse length - set how long the unit is refreshed (2
settings).
Calibrate Day/Night sensor - setup for how dark you want the
unit to work at.
Use diagnostic LED - On/Off
Test Flash - Flashes the attached photo flash board.
External Trigger - This is an external trigger input (TTL)
for control of other cameras like CMOS cameras that do not have a
flash.Lastly the slave flash board will come with a laminated sticker with all of the DIP switch setting so you can put this inside your case. Exclusive Photo Flash Learning Mode DIP switch 1 sets up the flash learning mode. This feature, when in On position, is used to teach the Slave Flash controller board how many pre-flashes your camera has. This is needed so that the Slave Flash controller can send off the slave flash on the last pre-flash. This feature is unique to the PixController Slave Flash unit! When you boot up your PixController Slave Flash board with Learning Mode "On" the green diagnostic LED will blink 6 times letting you know that the board is going into Learning Mode. At this point you need to point your camera towards the Photo Flash detector on the board and take a photo with flash. The PixController Slave Flash board will then blink back the number of pre-flashes your camera has. This number will be stored in memory on the PixController Slave Flash board until you use Learning Mode again. After this is set power the board down and turn Learning Mode to "Off". Any time you change the manufacture or model of camera you plan to use you will need to use the Learning Mode feature to teach the pre-flash sequence. Example Photos Using Slave Flash Sony DSC-P32 Example - Before and after photos using the PixController Micro and Mini, ProMaster FM600, and Vivitar 2000 flash units. Olympus D-395 Example - Before and after photos using the PixController Micro and Mini, ProMaster FM600, and Vivitar 2000 flash units. Remote Slave Flash Unit Test Photos - Photos by Don Letho. |
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