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Intermittent Motor Noise FL360L Flash

Started Jun 7, 2019 | Questions thread
Peter 1745 Senior Member • Posts: 2,022
Re: Intermittent Motor Noise FL360L Flash

I once had an unusual intermittent noise on my Olympus FL600 flash which is very similar to the Panasonic 360L flash.

The noise was coming from the zoom head motor and I found the cause to be an incorrectly seated wide angle diffuser panel. The flash head zooms out to its widest setting when the panel is deployed which is triggered by a sensor in the flash head. The incorrectly seated wide angle flash panel was causing the sensor to be triggered intermittently. The cure was to push the wide angle diffuse back into its proper storage position.

This may not be the cause of your problem but it can't hurt to check.

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Peter
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