Can you really only use Sea & Sea Fiber cables with Sea & Sea strobes?

[robd]

Looking for a little user info and advice. Is it true that you can you really only use Sea & Sea Fiber cables with Sea & Sea strobes? I have used generics with other strobes but never used Sea & Sea's. Would really like and advice I can get.
Thanks

 

[Ministryofgiraffes]

Backscatter ones work fine...With D2Js. You likely shouldn’t stray too far from 613 fibre optics though.

 

[Gina Nicole]

These work well with Sea & Sea strobes too: Kraken Multi-fiber Sync Cord - Sea & Sea Style

As long at they are good quality multi-fiber sync cords they should be okay.

 

[Ministryofgiraffes]

These work well with Sea & Sea strobes too: Kraken Multi-fiber Sync Cord - Sea & Sea Style

As long at they are good quality multi-fiber sync cords they should be okay.

seem very expensive though for those guys..

 

[Gina Nicole]

Multi-fiber cords will cost a lot more than single fiber. The Weefine ones are cheaper than Nauticam or Sea & Sea’s. Pretty much any third party multi-fiber cord of decent build will cost $70+. That’s the reason I mentioned them.

 

[Ministryofgiraffes]

Holy crap. I never realized what I paid for my cables. They were indeed $80 each. Although the housing attachments were included and with the weefine ones are $25extra for the housing attachments.

‘I suppose it’s testament to their durability, I shoot with the nauticam ones with a set of backup backscatter and I clearly had no idea what I paid for them...

 

[davehicks]

Buy this for $15 from Ebay. Order the 2mm diameter fiber. Attach the connectors from a dead cable, drill it out and attach with a drop of superglue. You'll have enough cable for a set of cables and a couple of spares.

5m Black Plastic Pmma End Glow Fiber Optic Cable Light Inner Diameter 1mm-6mm | eBay

 

[Chris Ross]

It depends on what you are triggering the strobes with - there are a lot of threads from people having difficulty triggering S&S strobes with LED triggers and more so trying to get TTL to work. If you are using an on board flash the requirements are a bit looser particularly for manual triggering. INON strobes on the other hand have much more sensitive slave trigger sensors and are much easier to trigger.

 

[bvanant]

There are quite nice 613 fiber cables from Tooke on ali express or you can make your own using 613 fiber if you want or you can try the 2 mm end glow fiber that Dave suggests but it is hard to coil and if you bend it too much it will stop working.
Bill

 

[Ardy]

Hi Guys, I'm a cheapskate and proud of it.
I went to my local electronics store bought a couple of meters of fibre optic cable (no idea what one), bought some rubber grommets that were the right size for my SnS flashes drilled a small hole through grommets attached cables and been using them for 4 years,
Total cost $<10. I still have under a metre of spare cable if I have a problem. Only issue or advantage is that if they get hooked they come out rather than break.
BTW I am no smarty when it comes to DIY.