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p.10 #1 · Pelican battery pack

Donald Yeager wrote:
Since Aims updated their inverter, which brand are you guys favoring instead?

Did I miss something? I recently built one of these with an AIMS 180, and it's giving me 10 second recycle times on an AB400... not especially useful.

Jun 23, 2010 at 06:21 PM

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p.10 #2 · Pelican battery pack

Same thing happened to me. AIMS recently changed their inverters unfortunately!

bobk wrote:
Donald Yeager wrote:
Since Aims updated their inverter, which brand are you guys favoring instead?

Did I miss something? I recently built one of these with an AIMS 180, and it's giving me 10 second recycle times on an AB400... not especially useful.

Jun 23, 2010 at 06:22 PM

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p.10 #3 · Pelican battery pack

Hmmm... So if AIMS changed their inverters, what's the product of choice now?

Jun 25, 2010 at 12:04 AM

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p.10 #4 · Pelican battery pack

Samlex?

Jun 25, 2010 at 12:05 AM

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p.10 #5 · Pelican battery pack

Does anyone know how I can tell if i got an older or newer aims? I have made the pack but i havent recieved my einsteins so i cant try them yet.

Jun 25, 2010 at 08:50 AM

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p.10 #6 · Pelican battery pack

mberky07 wrote:
Samlex?
Samlex inverters are said to work with strobes, based on the users' experience from this forum and other sites.

martinhallberg wrote:
Does anyone know how I can tell if i got an older or newer aims? I have made the pack but i havent recieved my einsteins so i cant try them yet.
Then why don't you just wait until the strobe arrives?

Jun 25, 2010 at 03:04 PM

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p.10 #7 · Pelican battery pack

The new Aims 180 is a darker blue, longer, and has two separate inputs for positive and negative. The old one just had a standard power cable coming straight out. It's fairly obvious if you compare it to the photos posted in this thread. If you bought your Aims 180 within the last 45 days, you probably got the new one, unless you got a store with old stock.

Jun 25, 2010 at 03:13 PM

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p.10 #8 · Pelican battery pack

It also has a better (metal) faceplate, whereas the old 180 had a crappy fiberglass-feeling one that always felt like it was gonna crack. Oh, and hey, Guy

Jun 25, 2010 at 03:20 PM

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bacilonur wrote:
It also has a better (metal) faceplate, whereas the old 180 had a crappy fiberglass-feeling one that always felt like it was gonna crack. Oh, and hey, Guy

NOoooOoOoos!! You blown my cover!

Perhaps you should sell all your DIY packs as well?

Jun 25, 2010 at 06:12 PM

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p.10 #10 · Pelican battery pack

Any luck with your new build?

bacilonur wrote:
It also has a better (metal) faceplate, whereas the old 180 had a crappy fiberglass-feeling one that always felt like it was gonna crack. Oh, and hey, Guy

Jun 25, 2010 at 08:45 PM

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p.10 #11 · Pelican battery pack

bacilonur wrote:
The new Aims 180 is a darker blue, longer, and has two separate inputs for positive and negative. The old one just had a standard power cable coming straight out. It's fairly obvious if you compare it to the photos posted in this thread. If you bought your Aims 180 within the last 45 days, you probably got the new one, unless you got a store with old stock.

Damn it then I got the new ones, I live in sweden and ordered the einsteins to use with these because i need the smallest powerfull strobe there is. Will the inverters still work with the einsteins but with the longer (10 seconds?) recycle time? Any other downsides?

Jun 26, 2010 at 01:24 PM

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p.10 #12 · Pelican battery pack

Are there any other workarounds for the inverter? i really like the small battery pack concept and would love to see if it could be done once more with maybe a different inverter.

Jun 28, 2010 at 06:54 PM

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p.10 #13 · Pelican battery pack

tag for future information

Jul 02, 2010 at 01:14 AM

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p.10 #14 · Pelican battery pack

martinhallberg wrote:
Damn it then I got the new ones, I live in sweden and ordered the einsteins to use with these because i need the smallest powerfull strobe there is. Will the inverters still work with the einsteins but with the longer (10 seconds?) recycle time? Any other downsides?

The Einsteins are supposed to work with lower input voltage than vitually any other modern strobe with no probs, so you should be fine, as long as you're patient.

Of course no one's actually verifed this, so thanks for being our lab rat!

Jul 04, 2010 at 12:21 PM

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p.10 #15 · Pelican battery pack

Ok that sounds good, I suppose I'll just have to wait and try when it arrives.

Jul 04, 2010 at 04:17 PM

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p.10 #16 · Pelican battery pack

holy smokes the little genny is $3000!

Jul 07, 2010 at 01:12 PM

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p.10 #17 · Pelican battery pack

I've tried with two separate inverters now to no avail. I'm really bummed about it- I was so looking forward to using my einstein with a tiny battery pack. Now I'm out 270 bucks and have nothing to show for it. I guess I'll return the inverters to stock and try to send them back for a refund. What am I going to do with the battery and modified pelican case?

Jul 10, 2010 at 12:52 AM

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p.10 #18 · Pelican battery pack

Sell them on ebay, you are not going to lose much besides the time you spent.

Jul 10, 2010 at 11:58 AM

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p.10 #19 · Pelican battery pack

TBRD wrote:
I've tried with two separate inverters now to no avail. I'm really bummed about it- I was so looking forward to using my einstein with a tiny battery pack. Now I'm out 270 bucks and have nothing to show for it. I guess I'll return the inverters to stock and try to send them back for a refund. What am I going to do with the battery and modified pelican case?

What inverter did you use and with wich strobe?

Jul 10, 2010 at 04:35 PM

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p.10 #20 · Pelican battery pack

I used the Aims 180W pure sine wave inverter. You know, the one the OP said not to get. I missed that part when I read through the thread. I built the pack to work with a PCB Einstein 640- a great piece of kit BTW. I had originally ordered a VBII but canceled it after researching DIY options. The sheer size of the Pelican pack sold me immediately. I would definitely pay for one of these if someone is willing to sell.

Jul 10, 2010 at 09:24 PM

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