Paul C. Buff, Inc. Technical Forum

Hey All,

Newb here to the forum. :)

During a photo-shoot today I was removing my cone and putting on a beauty dish and touched metal to something and the light made a large pop sound and now the green power light comes on in back, but neither the beauty light or strobe lights work.

I am hoping all I did was pop a fuse, but the one spot on the back which says "circuit breaker" I can't seem to get open and don't want to twist on it too much with a pliers on it.

Is that what I should check first? If that isn't bad what next?

Thanks for the help!!

:) Dave

There may be a reset button on that unit. I am not familiar with the Ultra 1200 but I found this page with info on it. Here is the link. If this dosen't help, you'll have to wait for TS to read your post on Monday.

http://www.white-lightning.com/manuals/ultra.htm

RMS

Thanks for the reply. I read through the manual and it gave some info about the circuit breaker. It says it will stick out when tripped. It appears to me that it is not tripped, looks like it has a center peg that will pop out. It is flat with the black base it is housed in.

Also one other note, I have my doubts about the grounding of the power source I was plugged into. So I don't think it is going to be anything I can fix.

:) Dave

You probably hit the flash tube contacts and fried something. Reset isn't going to fix it . . . but we will. It's a pain, but you really ought to pull the plug before you change reflectors. Einstein in a lot safer in this regard because everything is protected by the glass dome.

Ok thanks, I will ship it off tomorrow.

:) Dave