Nikon SB-900 Overheating Explanation & Solution (Part 2)

PART TWO OF FOUR This video discusses into depth to explain the causes of Nikon's flagship speedlight of SB-900 to overheat due to human errors. Enjoy!

Music: Autumn Leaves by John Coltrane

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Nikon
• SB-900
• Overheat
• Hot
• Malfunction
• Failure
• Explanation
• Solution
• Thermal
• Cut
• Off
• Shut
• Down
• Human
• Error
• Speedlight
• Duracell
• AA
• Alkaline
• Coppertop
• Battery
• Batteries
• SB-800
• SB-600
• SB-400
• Firmware
• Update
• D3
• D3X
• D700

[DeathStar012]

This si amazing. :D

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Out of thousands of negative, whining, dimwitted, and complaining SB-900 users, yeah, you can say that again.

[erickhan61]

@Lilkiwiguy87 Dude, Thanks for all your effort. But the reality is that there are "thousands of negative, whining, dimwitted, and complaining SB-900 users" And now there is 1001 (me) So why not admit the engineering and design flaw that has thousands concerned and upset. Enough with the battery saga, the more you explain the more it becomes apparent that there has not been thought put in to the fact that batteries will over heat and the fact that it is not cooling fast enough is an issue.

[Lilkiwiguy87]

We have nothing to admit; these are Nikon's words but written in our own words. We never had any problem with our SB-900s.

[pedalman]

What do you recon to the powergenix NiZn 1.6volt rechargables ?

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Avoid it at all costs, on page F-8 in the SB-900's user's manual, it clearly states right here,

"Use four AA-type batteries of any of the following types: 1) Alkaline-manganese (1.5V) batteries, 2) Lithium (1.5V) batteries, 3) Oxyride (1.5V) batteries, and 4) Ni-MH (1.2V) batteries"

Also, this,

"High-power manganese batteries are not recommended."

[AZNFlipy12]

@MrPacMe "can i photo" LOL, but on a serious note Nikon's CLS will allow you to do just that without any cables or such dongles. Not all cameras support Nikon's CLS such as the D5000 or the D3000.

[jleite5136]

@MrPacMe Yes you can case you use Nikon's Speedlights SB600, SB700, SB800 and SB900. With Nikon's CLS, you can shoot off-camera Speedlights wirelessly. A burst of flash from the commander unit will control your slave or slaves. SB600 is the only one that cannot be set as a commander unit (check your camera's instruction manual to see if you can use its popup flash as a commander unit). Case you're interested, there are a lot of tutorials here in YouTube to guide you all the way through.

[MrPacMe]

I have a question:

can i photo, without putting the flash on the camera? any ways without a Cable?

Thx for the video

[AFFXILegend]

me too