Jim The Speedotron units do this as a matter of operation. When you turn the unit off, it fires all lights. Speedotron suggests to turn the power to full before turning it off to discharge the capacitors. Why do you think they suggest that? Or did I misunderstand something? Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht http://www.darkroomagic.com On 2006-10-02 03:08, "Jim Brick" <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Those folks who fire > their strobes just before turning off the power are ruining their > capacitors. The useful life of the unit will be noticeably shortened. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.