SB-800 Humming...

[aswcheng]

Fellow SB-800 owners,

Finally bite the bullet and got one for myself. Now I understand why people wants to run workshop on this thing!

Wonderful piece of equipment, both in terms of the build quality and its capabilities (which I'm sure will take a while for me to learn). I've noticed something though - *whenver the backlight of the LCD is on*, there is a faint humming noise (similar to the sort of noise one gets when the flash is charging up, but much lower in volume). It's not very loud at all - only audible if I hold the flash near my face/ear.

Does anyone else notice this on their SB-800? A friend of mine has said his does the same thing as well.

P/S. Isn't it nice to have the board back in action again? Three cheers for the hardworking administrators!

Andy

[Aussie Dave]

Hi Andy
you won't regret buying the SB800....it is AMAZING !

I wouldn't worry about the humming sound.....mine also does it when the LCD is backlit. If you notice, once the flash jumps into "standby", it goes away, until you half-press the shutter release and wake the flash up.

I'd imagine that this sound is the flash keeping itself fully charged in readiness for you to take a photo. When it goes into standby, it simply ceases holding itself fully charged.

Make sense ?@?

[Hudo]

Recently purchased a SB800 and love it. I just find over the SB600 I have it's a fair more versitile flash as you'd expect.

Mark

[beetleboy]

S'not the flash holding it's charge that makes the humming cos if you turn the backlight off but leave the unit running (off standby I mean!) the humming stops. I think it's actually the little backlight mechanism that does the humming but I assume because they all do it there's nothing to worry about.

To be totally honest I hadn't even noticed the humming until you pointed it out!!

Keep flashing!

Liam =]

[aswcheng]

S'not the flash holding it's charge that makes the humming cos if you turn the backlight off but leave the unit running (off standby I mean!) the humming stops.]

I was just about to say the same thing; you must have read my mind... I too think it's the backlight (kind of like some fluorescent lights humming), but just thought I'll check if others' SB-800s behave the same way.

To be totally honest I hadn't even noticed the humming until you pointed it out!!

You are the fourth person today who said that to me today! I hope I haven't sparked a mass panic...

Andy