Safety Instructions; Preparing The Flashgun For Use; Attaching The Flashgun To A Camera; Power Supply - Metz MECABLITZ 45 CL-4 Mode D'emploi

1. Safety instructions

• The flash unit is exclusively intended and approved for photographic use!
• Never fire a flash in the vicinity of flammable gases or liquids (petrol,
solvents, etc.) - DANGER OF EXPLOSION!
• Never take flash shots of car, bus or train drivers, or of motorcycle and
bicycle riders, whilst they are travelling. They could be blinded by the
light and cause an accident!
• Never fire a flash in the immediate vicinity of the eyes! Flash fired direct-
ly in front of the eyes of a person or animal can damage the retina and
lead to severe visual disorders - even blindness!
• Only use the approved power sources listed in the Operating
Instructions!
• Do not expose batteries to excessive heat, sunshine, fire and the like!
• Never throw exhausted batteries on to a fire!
• Exhausted batteries should be immediately removed from the flash unit!
Lye leaking out of spent batteries will damage the unit.
• Never recharge dry-cell batteries!
• Do not expose the flash unit or battery charger to dripping or splashing
water!
• Protect the flash unit from excessive heat and humidity! Do not store the
flash unit in the glove compartment of a car!
• Never place material that is impervious to light in front of, or directly on,
the reflector screen. The reflector screen must be perfectly clean when a
flash is fired. The high energy of the flash light will burn the material or
damage the reflector screen if this is not observed.
• Do not touch the reflector screen after a series of flash shots. Danger of
burns!
• Never disassemble the flashgun! DANGER: HIGH VOLTAGE!
• There are no components inside the flashgun that can be repaired by a
layperson.

2. Preparing the flashgun for use

2.1 Attaching the flashgun to a camera

The flashgun can only be operated with a synch cable a or the connecting
cables SCA 300 A or SCA 3000 C
1)
the camera.
Be sure to switch off the mecablitz by its main switch prior to mounting
or removing the standard foot or SCA adapter. Before mounting or
removing the flash unit, switch off both the camera and the flash unit!
Push adapter or 301 standard foot into the camera's accessory shoe and
lock in place with the knurled nut.
An SCA-300 adapter or the 301 standard foot are connected to the flashgun
with the SCA 300 A connecting cable.
1)
An SCA-3002 adapter is connected to the flashgun with the SCA 3000 C
connecting cable.
Mounting the flashgun:
• Fasten the camera bracket with the bracket screw to the camera's tripod
bush. For medium- and large-format cameras we recommend the use of
the 70-35 bracket (optional accessory).
• Insert the camera bracket into the holder block
until it is audibly engaged.
• Secure the camera bracket with the locking screw.
• Connect the synch or SCA cable to the flashgun and camera or adapter.

2.2 Power supply

The flashgun can be operated with:
• Alkaline manganese batteries, size IEC LR 6 (AA-type) (only with BAT-ver-
sion, otherwise optional extra)
• Metz NiCad battery pack 45-40 (only if NiCad is featured; otherwise
available as an optional accessory). A charger (see table 2, page 76) is
and an SCA-300/3002 adapter
1)
1)(Optional accessories)
of the bracket holder
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