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Equipment & Techniques => Lighting => Topic started by: gebseng on March 02, 2018, 11:48:20 am

Title: Jinbei/Caler TRS-V , how to use two at once
Post by: gebseng on March 02, 2018, 11:48:20 am

Hi everyone on the forum,

I recently purchased two Jinbei/Caler ECD-V 1000 monolights and two fitting Jinbei TRS-V remote triggers. Both are great btw, they seem well built and very reliable so far.


(https://2.img-dpreview.com/files/w/TS1600x1600?url=https%3A%2F%2Fim9.cz%2FiR%2Fimportprodukt-orig%2F4f4%2F4f41b45adc2f5a41de0535e32ea4e9d5.jpg&signature=CAGpcshyoSNrkutV6Jeru39pP8c%3D)


(https://1.img-dpreview.com/files/w/TS560x560?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.fripers.pl%2Fo%2Fnfo%2Fradio-transmitter-trsv-for-jinbei-lamps-16-channels.5185.0.jpg&signature=m4ISolEqYcfQugimL3MU2xbQcPQ%3D)

These remotes are pretty basic, you can only pick a channel between 0 and 15, control the flash output and of course trigger the flash. There is no option to fire two different flashes on different channels.

Since I need to control the output on my two monolights independently, I bought two TRS-V remotes and set the to two different channels, so one remote only controls one flash.

My idea was to mount both remotes on this dual hot shoe:


(https://4.img-dpreview.com/files/w/TS940x940?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51Mh6arUDkL._SL1000_.jpg&signature=hy5de%2BAN8Q%2Be870bubfsaVUiWWg%3D)

Even though this seemed straight forward to me, it doesn't work for unknown reasons. If I attach both remotes, only one flash fires (no matter if I try the left or right shoe).

So, my question: can you think of another system that allows me to attach two remote triggers to one camera hot shoe, and trigger them simultaneously?

best,

geb

Title: Re: Jinbei/Caler TRS-V , how to use two at once
Post by: dgmkd on March 02, 2018, 06:44:45 pm

Have you considered putting one of the flashes in slave mode? Then you only need one trigger on camera.