For me; totaly reliable. It eliminated problems from everyone else's flashes and it sets up quick and easy.

Some construction points could be sturdier but if given the respect and care due it will hold up. Its your paycherck.

I purchased the single chanel system from Adorama 10 years ago and at the same time bought three extra receivers as well as a sync link and three tele-monitor units and have had zero problems.My primary use is for wedding photography but have used them and everything else for anything that required the use of really small and portable lights.The receivers are used with Vivitar 283 and 285 lights that are powered with Quantum Bantam batteries. The sync link is used sometinmes ( depending on how much power is nedded) with a Vivitar 285 or a Metz 60-CT4. The camera flash, when a 285, is powered by a Quantum Battery 1. My last use of all this Wein accesory equipment was on 21 August 2004 and as usual it worked as advertised. All of this equipment is checked before use and up to this point has shown no problems, required no repairs, and no assistance from technical support. The equipment is used with Nikon FM2's, N-80's Pentax 645's as well as Graphic Veiw Cameras and occasionaly a Linhof IV and its various lenses. My Photopgraphy experience is a twenty year carrer in the military (navy) and stayed with it after having retired in 1974. I was origanaly trained in tne military as an aerial photographer in photo "A" school, later went to "B" school, and later completed camera repair school. I don't consider myself to be an amateur with this kind of backround.In order for flash equipment to...work... all contacting surfaces must be clean and free of oxides, securly mated, and have fresh batteries. PC tips are quite frequently the cause of failures and right behind them are sync cords, and, something rarely ever considered is static electricity and what it can do to your flash equipment that is being supported by a sturdy metal stand on a nice fuzzy carpet. I have also used these units (transmitter and recevers) with my Photogenic studio units with no problems when I need something that can see around corners in bright light.

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had no occasion to call or use them.I would and do recomend these units to any and every one. Simple reliable technogly.

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Vivitar sl-2 and various other brands of white light slave triggers. While still in the military I used several radio units that were total disasters.

PFFF, NONE!!!

my summary says enough. stay away from wein products!!! i'd rate it a minus 5 if i could

this is the most poorly designed product ever made. no wonder it isn't in production anymore. it fails all the time and is madde of plastic that has problems. the stickers fall off. the buttons can and do switch to different ssttings when wouldn't know. it cost me dearly in pictures. i'm a professional portrait photographer. this is my career. i bought the product with confidence (at that time) knowing it would do it's job while i can keep my eye on my subjects. it has cost me many restetutions i've had to pay my customers, and had to do many shoots again, because the product wouldn't fire at times when i wanted it to, and would fire on it's own when i didn't want it to. they fire off with people turning on the AC, or changing channels in the TV, AT MY NEIGHBOR'S house! wein has dissapointed me with there cheap, plastic product. go for radio slaves instead, either quantum or pocket wizards. even tiffen doesn't work with them anymore, who were the distributer for there products. they will go bankrupt, i'm sure.

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you'll have better success talking to the wall.

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i'm using radio slaves now without and problems.

NONE!!!

donate your money to charity instead. this wein infrared Cordless Remote Flash Control is a piece of ...t!!

my experiences are the same as cfeather. very unreliable equipment. i had it sent back to wein 3 times, i really liked the concept, so i tried to stick with it. ended up a total failure. wein engineers could not make it work reliably. it seems to need a lot of power from the sync cord. as per cfeather "Don't waste your money on this unit." use a portable flash on camera pointed to a slave on studio strobe or other flash instead.

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wein customer service is fine, too bad they can't fix the Cordless Remote Flash Control.

I can''t think of any. In theory, it is a good concept with the local/remote capability off a hotshoe unit. Nice for isolating digital cameras from the studio strobe voltage.

Rocker switches are easily bumped into an off position at the absolute worst times. I ruined 1/2 roll of wedding formals because I didn''t notice my local switch had been bumped to off. Wein should include a roll of tape to keep these cheap switches in place. The channel select switches also are cheap sliders. The whole thing looks like something a teen-age high school student put together in electronics class. Unit absolutely refuses to fire some brands of strobes, particularly the Alien Bees. On other brands, its firing is haphazard. And, despite what some literature suggests, the lower-priced single-channel receivers do not work with the 2-channel transmitter.

This is a poorly designed unit that works when it feels like it, and that is usually when you need it most (bride and groom walking down the aisle and it decides not to communicate with the receiver). Don''t waste your money on this unit. Go with a radio transmitter. This thing looks cheap, performs like a cheap product but is fairly expensive for what little it does and how poorly it does it.

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No experience.