Welcome to RCDavis Game Camera Solutions. I hope you enjoy your stay here so please feel free to look around. My main reason for starting this site is to give the members of the Homebrew community a place to easily order my new Slave Controller boards. When the options for building slave flashes for our cameras became pretty much non-existent, I started looking into possibly providing a solution. A couple of members of Hag's House had been working on a slave control unit that was based on the Picaxe chip and programming. After talking with them I decided to design a control board that would be simple for almost anyone with modest soldering skills to put together. Rick Gray learned of my project and he offered to come up with a program for the PIC used on the Slave Controller boards which is a big improvement over Picaxe. After some field testing by Hag's members firemanjim, speed2spare, whtlhntr, sanford17, huntinggunns, sardisdeerhunter, Rick Gray and myself (bigbassmann) I believe we can now offer you a slave control board that will give you the results you expect and deserve from your slave flash builds. This unit runs on a 6 volt power supply and is capable of recharging and firing a slave flash as fast as every 10 seconds.* The Slave Controller is designed to operate with all digital cameras that use a 2 flash sequence and we also offer a unit that is compatible with single flash cameras.
If you are new to the homebrew world you may not know what a slave flash is. A slave flash is basically a way of adding another flash source to your game camera that extends the flash range to light up a larger area at a longer range from your camera. For the homebrew camera builder the slave flash can be added inside the case (known as an internal slave) when you lay out your build or added as a remote slave flash unit which is built into a separate case and mounted as much as 25-30 feet from the camera to extend the flash range even more. Of course the camera's flash strength and range will determine just how far away you can place the remote slave and still have it operate correctly, typically this will be in the 20-35 foot range. Try one of our Slave controller units for yourself and see how easy it is to add extra flash range to your game camera pictures.
Even though my main interest is aimed toward the Homebrew game camera community, I have asked Rick about developing a program that would make the Slave Controller compatible with commercial game cameras as well and I am pleased to say that we are now able to offer that option to you. If you own a commercial game camera you have probably already noticed that your unit has a somewhat less than adequate flash range in most cases. I am guessing that it is somewhere in the 25-30 foot range of useable flash at best. How many pictures are you getting where all you can see is eyes shining in the background? If you could add another 30-50 feet or more of useable flash range to your pictures wouldn't you want to do that? Of course you would. Stop wondering if those shining eyes belong to the buck of your dreams. Add one of our Remote Slave Controller units to your game camera arsenal and see what you have been missing. **
* Depending on the condition and size of the batteries used to operate the Slave Controller as well as the condition and capabilities of your slave flash unit.
** Remote slave flash units are now available for order upon request for either single flash cameras or 2 flash cameras. Allow 12-14 business days lead time when ordering a completed Remote Slave Controller unit.
If you are new to the homebrew world you may not know what a slave flash is. A slave flash is basically a way of adding another flash source to your game camera that extends the flash range to light up a larger area at a longer range from your camera. For the homebrew camera builder the slave flash can be added inside the case (known as an internal slave) when you lay out your build or added as a remote slave flash unit which is built into a separate case and mounted as much as 25-30 feet from the camera to extend the flash range even more. Of course the camera's flash strength and range will determine just how far away you can place the remote slave and still have it operate correctly, typically this will be in the 20-35 foot range. Try one of our Slave controller units for yourself and see how easy it is to add extra flash range to your game camera pictures.
Even though my main interest is aimed toward the Homebrew game camera community, I have asked Rick about developing a program that would make the Slave Controller compatible with commercial game cameras as well and I am pleased to say that we are now able to offer that option to you. If you own a commercial game camera you have probably already noticed that your unit has a somewhat less than adequate flash range in most cases. I am guessing that it is somewhere in the 25-30 foot range of useable flash at best. How many pictures are you getting where all you can see is eyes shining in the background? If you could add another 30-50 feet or more of useable flash range to your pictures wouldn't you want to do that? Of course you would. Stop wondering if those shining eyes belong to the buck of your dreams. Add one of our Remote Slave Controller units to your game camera arsenal and see what you have been missing. **
* Depending on the condition and size of the batteries used to operate the Slave Controller as well as the condition and capabilities of your slave flash unit.
** Remote slave flash units are now available for order upon request for either single flash cameras or 2 flash cameras. Allow 12-14 business days lead time when ordering a completed Remote Slave Controller unit.
