Wein PN Peanut Slave (100' Range)

Comments about Wein PN Peanut Slave (100' Range):

MANY mixed reviews but for the price I figured Id try. Ordered one to use for a 2nd off camera light, along with a pair of radio triggers, for a portable strobe studio.
Went off about 10 times reliably, results were good. Then stopped working as good. 10 flashes no trigger, then one here and there.
Going to just bite it and buy another set of radio triggers.

Great idea and a great product if it functioned properly. It just doesn't.

Build quality is shabby at best and just seems like a neglected product.
(The epoxy that the electronics reside in on mine wasn"t even fully cured; still sticky.)

Do yourself a favor and just pass this one over. Major QC issues with this one.

2 stars because a lot of people have had a good experience with them.

Comments about Wein PN Peanut Slave (100' Range):

Although the info is not readily available, this flash requires a sync voltage of greater than 5V to operate the circuitry.
I've tested 3 peanuts it on three different Nikon SB-24's (sync voltage around 4.5 V), and got very mixed results. Maybe 1 in 10 shots would trigger the flash.
As I understand it, it's a very competent product, when paired with a high enough sync voltage, but I cannot attest to that.

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Wein is one of the oldest names in the business and has been making this quality product for a few decades. That's the main reason why I stuck with this bargain priced unit instead of buying another brand.

To put it simply, it works fine!

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Very inexpensive way to trigger use on the go flashes

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I use these to enhance the range of self-contained strobe heads.

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These amazing little peanut slaves are extremely helpful when utilizing multiple strobes around location. The sensitivity of the sensors are truly amazing when having to deal with either low light or bright sunlight situations.

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Love these, simple very effective and do not require batteries! They are also very small which is nice considering the limited space I have on trips.

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I bought this to fire auxiliary flashes at weddings and in the studio, and found that it fired when it felt like it. I finally gave up and bought a different brand of optical slave and had no problems.

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I used it to trigger a slave flash with an umbrella.
It never miss a flash, even in full daylight.
BUT BUT BUT do not work with the digital camera flash. The modern camera flash, emit pre-flash (unvisible to the naked eyes) to ajust, and compute the power to the final flash, for the photo.
This sensor is to quick and trigger the slave flash at the first pre-flash, leaving no power, for the real one, the one that count. If you can disable the TTL flash option on your camera (like many SLR do) and set it to "manuel" then this little peanut will do its job perfectly.
There exist the same peanut but for digital camera, that do not trigger the slave during TTL pre-flashes.

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I used this to trigger a hot shoe flash that didn't have a built in optical slave. It was set in a lamp post in the studio and worked great even with the glass frosted.

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I photographed about 1200 weddings in years gone past. Today, for personal use only I use a digital camera and I will use the peanut slave to also fire my old Vivitar 283 in sync with the digital camera's flash, thereby increasing the flase range.

Comments about Wein PN Peanut Slave (100' Range):

Some report of unreliable triggering but not the case here. Works well with indoor situations.

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Works well on my modern flashes. Will not trigger my 35+ year old Vivitar 285.

Catalog does not mention it, but this has a female PC connection, so you can not plug it directly into the strobe. You need a few inches of male-to-male PC extension cord

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This product works on a limited number of flashes! I bought it for Nikon Sb800 but it does not work on this flash. Be sure to check first with Wein.

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I use 2 of these units and both perform flawlessly. Haven't had any misfires. Must be facing the source flash to work properly but this problem can be solved by using a sync cable to reposition the unit.

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Bought to use w/ a Vivitar 285 but should have paid closer attention to the description. There is apparently no way to turn off the preflash on my Nikon equipment, so the flash fails to sync. Actually, after playing around with settings for awhile I did manage to get it to sync on a hit or miss basis. Not what you want during a shoot though. I'm returning it and will try the one slated for digital.

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I am using two Canon 430ex ii's to light. I use Cybersync to trigger one and have the other one slave by using this peanut slave.

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When I use freshly charged batteries on my vivitar 285 it works very good but as their voltage goes down a little (say 75% charge) it become very unreliable. Maybe something about the ¨peanut¨ minimum voltage operation. So if you use alkalines or an external battery pack it should work fine.

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I got these for the Vivitar 285 and worked great indoors. They dont work as well out doors, or when too much light is coming in frm the outside. but for the price, i would definately be buying these for my slave units until i can afford some PW.

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Small,cheap, works every time. What more do you need?