27 Oct
2012
27 Oct
'12
2:29 p.m.
On 10/27/2012 02:07 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Photographic flash on newer (1950s and above) cameras
used
a tiny coaxial connector called "PC". But the OTHER end,
where it plugged into the flash unit often used a connector
that was virtually identical to a USA MALE mains connector!
If you wanted to fire two flash units at once, you could
make a cord with a female mains connector, and TWO male
mains connectors!!
THAT is not a safe cable to leave lying around.
...and large flash bulbs of the time used ordinary Edison screw bases.
Not something that you'd want to put into your bedside reading lamp...
--Chuck