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I have the old "sunfeather" CEYOO flash with some falshbulbs. I bought it five years ago but didn't come around to use it, because i could'nt find any battery to fit. Maybe i did'nt give it time enough? Have some found any battery? Have you managed to get it started in another way? Or is it impossible? Just something for the shelf these days?

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I got too one of these flashguns... And had the same problem (but I only have ONE bulb!).

 

The battery is 22,5V, I think. Not a difficult voltage to get. The big problem is to find the bulbs. And when you find one, the price is too high. I think that nobody is making these bulbs anymore.

 

Regards,

 

Martin

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The voltage is not critical, try a pile of LR44s, or a couple of 12V lighter batteries used in car remote controls. Polarity is important, the outer can of an LR44 is positive.

 

Hmm don't sure i understand you exactly, there is a ceration space to fill up also. I guess you could build a separate battery unit. But i am not that dedicated.

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Yes, flashpowder! Those were the days! I do still remember the Christmas dinner guests staring in horror, waiting for the illumination bomb hanging in the chandelier to go POOOF!

 

And while the blinded subjects were still groping around, a fine dust of magnesium oxide (a.k.a. talc) slowly settled on the dinner table and the furniture.

 

This was when photographers were men with hair on their chest and large rollfilm folders in their hands.

 

Sooner or later, you got the chance to prove yourself a hero when the fuse went out and you had to step up to the deadly contraption and either fix it or defuse it ... sometimes you did not have to go to the barber until in April or May next year.

 

The old man from the Age of Flashpowder

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But have anybody of you actually taken photo with the Ceyoo past 15 years or so?

I actually took photos of my daughter and her friends before their high school prom about five months ago with one. I used it as fill-in outdoors. The best part was one of my daughter's friends asking me if the bulbs were reusable. The worst part was trying to remember the guide number settings/calculations that when I was young were second nature. The photos actually turned out okay and it was a lot of fun. I'd post a sample, but I am in between computers and haven't restored my scanned images yet.

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