Yongnuo YN-565ex fix

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Anyone ever had one of these? Anyone ever had one of these break on them? :razz:

GARGH! I waited weeks for some ebay retailer to send me this flashgun. I'd had previously decent experience with Yongnuo flashguns. Their build quality and performance equalled the official Canon ones at least. Anyways, I received the flash last week and gave it its first proper trial run on Friday night. By the end of the night the thing stopped working! :bang: The flash was triggering, both on pilot and on the hotshoe, but the flash was not firing.

I might add, up until that point it was giving me great results!

After browsing the web, it turns out that a common fault with these flashes is a blown capacitor. The bloke on eBay has told me to mail the thing back to him and he'll fix it for me... This is beginning to cost me a fortune! :thumbsdown:

Has anyone had the misfortune of this happening to them? I'm wondering if it would easier to either:

a) Repair it myself
OR
b) Have one of you guys repair it for me!

I feel like I've been cheated out of £100 :puke: Appreciate any help or advice you guys can give me!

Eddy
 
not had that with mine (and its had a hammering..)

for under a weeks use id be insisting on a replacement unit.

edit - ah actually mines a 560. id still ask for a replacement though so not a completely useless reply :D
 
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Eddzz!! said:
Anyone ever had one of these? Anyone ever had one of these break on them? :razz:

GARGH! I waited weeks for some ebay retailer to send me this flashgun. I'd had previously decent experience with Yongnuo flashguns. Their build quality and performance equalled the official Canon ones at least. Anyways, I received the flash last week and gave it its first proper trial run on Friday night. By the end of the night the thing stopped working! :bang: The flash was triggering, both on pilot and on the hotshoe, but the flash was not firing.

I might add, up until that point it was giving me great results!

After browsing the web, it turns out that a common fault with these flashes is a blown capacitor. The bloke on eBay has told me to mail the thing back to him and he'll fix it for me... This is beginning to cost me a fortune! :thumbsdown:

Has anyone had the misfortune of this happening to them? I'm wondering if it would easier to either:

a) Repair it myself
OR
b) Have one of you guys repair it for me!

I feel like I've been cheated out of £100 :puke: Appreciate any help or advice you guys can give me!

Eddy
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Send it back for a refund :shrug:
 
I have YN565EX
seems okay so far, but it's a proper product, not something knocked together!
so claim on a warranty if at all possible.
My YN565EX, I gave it some hammer yesterday, worked most of the time but not reliably. might be down to the batteries though....only quality batteries in my flashes from now on!
 
If you need to send it back to china.
Personally i would try first ,to fix it myself
the capacitor is about 50p.
And if it is that, then its a easy fix.
If that fails then send it back.
 
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wambam said:
If you need to send it back to china.
Personally i would try first ,to fix it myself
the capacitor is about 50p.
And if it is that, then its a easy fix.
If that fails then send it back.
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Not sure what kind of capacitor I'd need, however! I'm definitely no expert when it comes to electronics! :shrug:
 
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Not sure what kind of capacitor I'd need, however! I'm definitely no expert when it comes to electronics! :shrug:
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Then you stand a really good chance of injuring yourself if you start messing around with the internals of a flashgun.

The seller has told you to send it back, so that's what to do.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Then you stand a really good chance of injuring yourself if you start messing around with the internals of a flashgun.

The seller has told you to send it back, so that's what to do.
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Sending it back to bloody China means another month of waiting! Argh! :bang:
 
well the other option is to claim your camera insurance. if it failed during a knock etc
I got my YN from china and it arrived in 4-5 working days iirc
 
As I said on another thread about flash guns the problem with these (and a lot of other chinese electronics) is that the quality control sucks , so you can get a good one or you can get a bad one - and the customer service on the chinese end can also suck

personally the only chinese flashes i'll touch are the jessops ones (which are actually rebadged nissins) because then at least jessops handle the warranty/exchange side of things - I still won't put them on camera though, i just use them as cheap slaves
 
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