Overheat Protection; Other Protections - Godox V1 C Instruction Manual

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Overheat protection

• To avoid overheating and deteriorating the flash head, do not fire more than 30
continuous flashes in fast succession at 1/1 full power. After 30 continuous flashes,
allow a rest time of at least 10 minutes.
If you fire more than 30 continuous flashes and then fire moreflashes in short
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intervals, the inner over-temperature protection function may be activated and make
the recycling time over 10 seconds. If this occurs, allow a rest time of about 10
minutes, and the flash unit will then return to normal.
When the over-temperature protection is started,
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Number of flashes that will activate over-temperature protection:
Power Output Level
1/1
½ (+0.7~+0.9)
½ (+0.3~+0.6)
½ (+0.0~+0.2)
¼ (+0.0~ +0.9)
1/8 (+0.0~ +0.9)
1/16 (+0.0~ +0.9)
1/32 (+0.0~ +0.9)
1/64 (+0.0~ +0.9)
1/128 (+0.0~ +0.9)
1/256 (+0.0~ +0.9)

Other Protections

The flash is fitted with an assembly of automatic safety mechanisms. In case of malfunction
flash will activate sound alarm along with error messages displayed on LCD as follows:
Error
A failure occurs on the recycling system so that the flash cannot fire. Please
E1 restart the flash unit. If the problem still exists, please send this product to a
maintenance center.
E2 The system gets excessive heat. Please allow a rest time of 10 minutes.
If flash exposure compensation has already been set with the camera
flash, flash exposure compensation cannot be set with the camera. To
set it with the camera, the camera flash's flash exposure compensation
must be set to zero.
If any Flash Custom Functions and flash settings other than flash
exposure compensation have been set by both the camera and the
flash, the latest settings will take effect.
Number of Flashes
M
30
40
50
60
100
200
300
500
1000
1000
1000
Description
is shown on the LCD display.
HSS
15
20
20
20
30
30
40
40
50
50
50
35