Hi Dough thanks as wll, answers so fast as yours make reading the PDML so valuable for me!
I had a big surprise today. After the big bangs yesterday I could not resist trying it again today and after first not showing the ready lamp the flash now works perfectly after having him let on for a few minutes. That's incredible for me, I really was like a small explosion yesterday and I expected everything to be in small pieces inside of the plastic housing. greetings Markus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Franklin Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:58 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Can a flash explode? Markus Maurer wrote: > I think that is is definitly broken now but I wonder if that thing could > have exploded in my hand and injure me severly? Possibly. From your description, I'd guess the the first "bang" was the main capacitor for the flash tube blowing. Those are usually large electrolytic capacitors. If that's what it was, the risk of exposure depends on exactly what's inside. Way back in the '80s, a lot of electrolytic capacitors contained PCBs, but I doubt that's true any more. I have no real idea what's in them today. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
