Misfires with Flashpoint R2 Pro MarkII -- is that a thing?

[Alex Ethridge]

I read in another thread that another user wrote about the Flashpoint R2 Pro MarkII, "I get a lot of misfires on the 1st shot when I'm ready to shoot. No pattern to how or why.", no mention of whether monolites or flashes.

I have no personal experience with Flashpoint/Godox products and ordered this unit along with three lights which are due to arrive in a day or two.

My first thought when I read the post was possibly a sleep or standby mode kicking in.

Comments please and thanks for reading.

 

[JimResnikoff]

I suggested to him in that thread to go to page 23 in the manual to turn off sleep / standby. I have the same trigger for Nikon along with a receiver for my SB-700 flash. This allows me to use both the AD400 pro and my speedlights together.

Never had that problem.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

1st - Many users fail to read the manual, and leave the trigger on the default long range (high transmit power) setting.

This causes mis-triggering when used at normal working distances.

You need to set the trigger to the shorter range setting.

2nd - the Godox system uses 2.4GHz for command/control - which is also used by WiFi and Bluetooth systems. So if you have devices in the immediate vicinity which are using 2.4GHz, you may want to check which channels provide a clear, issue free transmission for the Godox flash.

Channel selection is easy to do, you have 32 to choose from.

3rd - You also have the ability to set a custom Digital ID for the Channel being used - you can select ID 1-99 - receiver and transmitter must be set to the same ID and Channel to sync up. This provides excellent resistance to radio interference.

4th - Switch OFF sleep/standby mode!

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[JimResnikoff]

Well said Chris.

The sad thing is, it probably took longer to write the question /post than it would have taken to check the manual. I've seen repeated threads such as this where multiple people have asked for confirmation on a topic and the OP never responds.

 

[Alex Ethridge]

Well said Chris.

The sad thing is, it probably took longer to write the question /post than it would have taken to check the manual. I've seen repeated threads such as this where multiple people have asked for confirmation on a topic and the OP never responds.

It's also a waste of time reading after and responding to those whom you think are time wasters who don't read the manual.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

It's also a wa...

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[Photomonkey]

I suggested to him in that thread to go to page 23 in the manual to turn off sleep / standby. I have the same trigger for Nikon along with a receiver for my SB-700 flash. This allows me to use both the AD400 pro and my speedlights together.

Never had that problem.

This ^^^^

I have three triggers and the default is 30 sec. I have changed 2 of them but the third is the one I always grab and forget the sleep mode. I am on the job so I just wake it and there is no problem but I keep forgetting to update the sleep mode.

Going to fix now. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[JimResnikoff]

Glad it was something simple.. It usually is.

 

[Alex Ethridge]

Found this today on YouTube

How to Prevent Godox Flash Misfires

 

[Thestructured]

I know this is an old thread but it's more than just people not reading the manual or user error.
I had not one, but two R2 pro mark ii's for Nikon and I was getting a very high random no fire rate with both, on three different camera models- D750, D850, and Z6. On the Z6 I could see my viewfinder changing occasionally which correlated to the no fires- the viewfinder would go from auto exposing (like it does when you use flash so you can see), to going dark- as if the trigger was rebooting or turning itself off momentarily or disconnecting itself. It was locked on the hotshoe perfectly and wiggling it around could not make it lose connection so that was not the problem. I obviously could not see that on my DSLR's, but they were getting the same no fire rates. I tried every single channel, sleep was turned off, distance settings, etc. Still a ton of no fires. This was no good at weddings. I exchanged the first one for another and there was no difference, Somewhere around a 10-15% no fire rate and it was completely random and had nothing to do with sleep. I see several reviews on adorama of users that experienced the same thing. Maybe there were some duds, but what are the chances of getting two duds months apart? Who knows. I gave up on this trigger, which sucks because it was the best ergonomically of all godox/flashpoint triggers so far.

 

[Guillermo Shashte]

I exchanged the first one for another and there was no difference, Somewhere around a 10-15% no fire rate and it was completely random and had nothing to do with sleep.

Did you use rechargeable batteries?

 

[Thestructured]

I exchanged the first one for another and there was no difference, Somewhere around a 10-15% no fire rate and it was completely random and had nothing to do with sleep.

Did you use rechargeable batteries?

I use rechargeables with no issues on any of my other godox triggers including the original xpro. However I did specifically test the r2 pro mark ii with alkalines because that's what adorama customer service recommended, and it did not make any difference. Several sets of fresh alkalines. I see reviews on adorama that had the exact experience I did. If there are people not having this issue, I might try another one because the double click to turn on and off groups was a huge benefit in speed of use.

 

[GreatWhiteWing]

I read in another thread that another user wrote about the Flashpoint R2 Pro MarkII, "I get a lot of misfires on the 1st shot when I'm ready to shoot. No pattern to how or why.", no mention of whether monolites or flashes.

I have no personal experience with Flashpoint/Godox products and ordered this unit along with three lights which are due to arrive in a day or two.

My first thought when I read the post was possibly a sleep or standby mode kicking in.

Comments please and thanks for reading.

I have an earlier Mark I version and get "so far" no miss fires in manual mode vs TTL mode which I got quite a few

I also shoot very close to flash units and did read enough of the manual to know to use the close setting.

 

[RDKirk]

I tried every single channel, sleep was turned off, distance settings, etc. Still a ton of no fires.

Do you mean that you went through every channel in a single specific venue that you were having misfires? I have found that bandwidth crowding has always been my problem with misfires. The scan function of the Adorama Flashpoint R2 Pro MarkII has resolved all my misfire issues.

 

[Thestructured]

I read in another thread that another user wrote about the Flashpoint R2 Pro MarkII, "I get a lot of misfires on the 1st shot when I'm ready to shoot. No pattern to how or why.", no mention of whether monolites or flashes.

I have no personal experience with Flashpoint/Godox products and ordered this unit along with three lights which are due to arrive in a day or two.

My first thought when I read the post was possibly a sleep or standby mode kicking in.

Comments please and thanks for reading.

I have an earlier Mark I version and get "so far" no miss fires in manual mode vs TTL mode which I got quite a few

I also shoot very close to flash units and did read enough of the manual to know to use the close setting.

The original Xpro works fine. The problems for Nikon are specific to the adorama R2 pro mark ii version. Absolutely nothing to do with incorrect settings or lack of reading the manual.

 

[twinger]

I just got this trigger and am having exactly this problem on my D780. It misfires about one in 20 times. I don't think it has anything to do with the wireless signal. The trigger is losing its connection to the camera. You can see this from the loss of flash ready icon in the viewfinder. The physical connection on the shoe is absolutely tight, so I don't think that's the problem. It's also not the sleep setting. It just won't fire or show the flash ready signal. And then suddenly it works again. I may be returning it for exchange.

 

[tugwilson]

I just got this trigger and am having exactly this problem on my D780. It misfires about one in 20 times. I don't think it has anything to do with the wireless signal. The trigger is losing its connection to the camera. You can see this from the loss of flash ready icon in the viewfinder. The physical connection on the shoe is absolutely tight, so I don't think that's the problem. It's also not the sleep setting. It just won't fire or show the flash ready signal. And then suddenly it works again. I may be returning it for exchange.

How far away is the strobe from the camera? f it's quite close you should set the trigger in short rang mode. I don't have the trigger you are using but on an XPro it's the DIST setting.

The other way of dealing with missfires is to change the channel to try and find ine with less interference.

 

[RDKirk]

So, a year and three days ago, I recommended using the scan function of the Mk 2 to make sure of a clear channel. Nobody ever responded to that.

Is this a Nikon-only problem?

 

[GreatWhiteWing]

So, a year and three days ago, I recommended using the scan function of the Mk 2 to make sure of a clear channel. Nobody ever responded to that.

Is this a Nikon-only problem?

I am not the OP. I had a miss-fire problem too but switching to full manual mode vs TTL the miss-fire isn't an issue anymore. I have no idea about Nikon gear. I was wondering if the OP got a defective copy