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RadioPopper P1 Radio Wireless System
Trouble Shooting other Miscellaneous Issues
One of my P1’s have become non-responsive
You may observe a P1 unit “freeze up” and become non-responsive to button presses, won’t turn off, won’t de-link or
re-link and so on. This is usually caused by a low battery. There is no “low voltage cutoff” in either unit. We’ve designed
them to allow the battery to continue to drain until some part of the circuitry can no longer function to allow longest use
of a battery, or to squeeze the last bit of power when you’re in a tight shooting situation and can’t replace batteries.
A new Alkaline battery (the non-rechargeable ones you get from the store) should last 5 to 10 hours of continual
transmit time. Rechargables will probably go longer, but remember that rechargeable batteries tend to naturally drain
and die off on their own after a couple days of non-use.
High Speed Sync - I see the flash fire, but the image is still dark
This may also be seen as a “pre-flash with no main flash” type of mis-fire as described above, but is not actually a mis-fire
at all. When playing with High Speed Sync it must be realized that your flash produces an exponentially reduced amount
of light the higher you push the shutter speed. If you’re shooting at 1/8000 (and we know you’ll try it) your flash is
emitting very little light. If you place the flash much distance from the subject or through a diffuser, you may not see
the contribution of light to your image, even though it is indeed firing correctly.
Try reducing your shutter speed or getting the flash closer to the subject.
Dealing with Radio Interfearance
It is easy to tell if you are in an environment with background radio interfearance. If your slave flashes begin spurrati-
cally emitting short or full bursts of light (without you triggering them), or if you notice the Link light on your P1 Receiv-
ers is flickering, there is likely some background interfearnance present.
Your P1 Receiver is highly sensitive to fluctuations in the radio signal which give it the required high speed performance.
It is also tuned to a very narrow band which means it tends to reject most forms of radio interfearnance. Occasionally,
you will still encouter situations where some source of background radio signals may cause interfearance.
This interfearance may be another radio transmitter, or it may be another electronic device. One common source is
flourescent light bulbs which are begnining to fail, and old computer monitors. Genearlly, you can avoid this interfear-
ance by moving out of the immediate area - sometimes moving just ten or fifteen feet is enough to restore normal
reliable operation. Your P1 system is NOT effected by cellular phones, 900mhz wireless phones or pagers - these devices
are tuned well away from the frequency used by the P1 system.