Sunday, February 10, 2008

Ain't got a gatt, but I got a soldering gun

I recently bought a cheap soldering gun and mod-ed one of my Cactus V2s's. There are a lot of people out there who do this to extend the range and things of that nature... I did it because I'm cheap. As always, a pointless story:

Dan and I went out to shoot at some milk jugs with a hunting rifle he just got. While we where searching around for a good place to we bumped into an old abandoned car that had been sitting there for at least a few winters. I thought it the rusty pile had some photographic potential, so I busted out my bag and got out some strobes and some V2s. I fired off a few shots and then the battery fell out of one of my V2s. This normally wouldn't be a big deal, but for some reason Gadget Infinity uses C2 batteries, which cost like $10 a piece.

Well, I decided I'd spend a few bucks and convert it to receive AA's. I'm excited to announce that I can now solder. Its a little more difficult than I had thought, but definitely doable for anybody with a little bit of time on their hands... and now I've got one RF trigger that powers off of AA's.

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