I've heard flashgun a few times before. I liked it, so it stuck with me. ;) Yes, I'm referring to the flash unit that can be mounted onto a camera(Like I said I had tried). This is also what I put the fresh batteries into. This device is different than the studio strobe I was talking about in that other thread.

There is no radio-anything in my setup. It's all optical for this poor boy. (There are apparently 4 possible channels you can operate on when in optical mode, and I was just confirming that I was on ch1 the whole time.)

I thought the post was pretty succinct. Maybe I was wrong.