{"id":1349,"date":"2010-08-09T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2010-08-11T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:48:34","slug":"cheap-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Cheap bits&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;.will I fry myself?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the current dilemma, do I fry myself financially and spend \u00a3150 on a Canon branded battery pack for my speedlites or get a cheap &#8216;replacement&#8217; from Ebay for \u00a320<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/cp-e4_1.jpg\" alt=\"Cheaper\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.in this case price won the day.  O.k. it&#8217;s probably not weather shielded and the quality is probably missing in places.  But the reality is it&#8217;s just a battery pack but it&#8217;s \u00a3120 cheaper from an almost identical Canon branded item.  I do prefer Canon branded items, however the official one is a joke in terms of price.<\/p>\n<p>So will it fry me? possibly &#8211; but only the same way the official product can.   I know what this product does, it provides a more powerful voltage directly to the flash head.  In certain circumstances it could be quite dangerous &#8211; so I will not be using it in a pond, or heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>To accompany tonights typing I&#8217;m listening to Martin Gore&#8217;s Counterfeit EP.<\/p>\n<p>\/edit  It arrived, and to confirm &#8211; I haven&#8217;t fried myself yet.  Noticed that the device appears to be weather sealed at both the battery end and the plug.  So maybe I can go flashing in the pond then :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;.will I fry myself? That&#8217;s the current dilemma, do I fry myself financially and spend \u00a3150 on a Canon branded battery pack for my speedlites or get a cheap &#8216;replacement&#8217; from Ebay for \u00a320 Well&#8230;. &#8230;.in this case price won the day. O.k. it&#8217;s probably not weather shielded and the quality is probably missing in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cheap bits&#8230;..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[182,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}