The BLACK BOX: 
The Black Box Battery Pack has been around in various incantations and upgrades for the past sixteen  plus years and some of my original packs date back to the sixties with different "chemistries", which is battery terminology or slang for different types of batteries. 

In those days we did use 12V car batteries, "the nine pound Graflex Bowling Ball", which progressed into finicky NiCads with the Honeywell Stobonars and imminent electrocution with the Eveready battery #497 commonly called the 510 Battery Pack of Death. I know. I almost got my self many times.

There are several thousand of my packs out there. My pack came about because I had another popular brand drop dead in the middle of a Wedding. After that, I built my own.

WITH THAT SAID: 

I have no secrets.  I am a one man company, I believe in simple, affordable, reliable, portable products and I work because I am semi-retired, it keeps me busy, and prevents boredom. 

I spent time working with a paper and today I don't have to chase stories, sports or do weddings anymore. Retired, not retreaded, thats a phrase meaning "you are too old to hire".

Thus I can pick and choose now the subjects and projects I wish to work on both writing the story and the photos.  And yes we do town hall photo "eat and chat", workshops in any state I am visiting if you guys put the party together. We talk about weddings, event photography and products and nothing gets held back. I do not charge for this, but I like good food, I said good, not expensive.

QUALITY MANTRA
No cheap junk in these things. I have enough contacts in the electronics fields that allow me to purchase quantity and quality to keep prices affordable and a high level of construction. Since I have the strongest warrantee in the business and the best price it behooves me to put quality stuff in. I hate comebacks. We rarely have one.  Barstools have claimed the most.

We have no distributors, no large chains of retail stores. No sales teams, rallies, parties, or "win a trip" for sales excellence, no corporate meetings, no stocks, no options, no employees, no headaches. 

I am limited by the amount I can build. they are all by my hand and a little help from a CNC machine and great vendors.  I have no advertising budget, my sales come from word of mouth and people like what I make so they tell their friends. 

You are dealing with a fellow photographer who kind of learned from shooting what works and what's really ridiculous. And I can be reached by phone most of the time.  I prefer the weekdays allowing some time on the weekends to spend with life doing what photographers like to do.  Taking pictures for stories.  Basically, sports, politics, community events.  It's exciting work usually lasting about a minute after standing around all day for six hours waiting for a shot. Many of you know the drill.

NO GIMMICKS:
The Black Boxes and Tuxedos work exceptionally well with regular on-camera flashes like a most Canons or Nikons and they are really a gas on Vivitar 283/285/285HV's  whether on the camera, a bracket, or in a dual setup for a light stand which is big now. 

We have pros in the field who have captured 1500 images doing variable flash fill for outdoors sports and serve well with remote Canon and Nikon strobes where you want your recycle times as fast as the mains and for the popular three light portable setups. In fact one of our shooters just did 4000 shots at the Oscars.

2010 BLACK BOX:  STANDARD FEATURES:
It is hand built, all hand soldered and sealed with RoHS certified wiring making it compatible for overseas; using HD DIN connectors instead of RCA jacks; a 21 watt commercial fireproof battery and heavy duty switches. Oversize clips and hangers for the shoulder strap are mounted with 3000 lb stressed rivets with backing plates.  The Ultra Clip is standard.  It cost sixteen times what a cheap spring clip costs. 

PROFILE:  I BUILD FOR,
SERIOUS WEDDING photographers, the ever popular Paparazzi, Photo-Journalists, Event, Sports, and Model  shooters. Serious amateurs looking to step up as he or she's figured out the packs that some of the other manufacturer sell are quite more EXPENSIVE. 

My units average over 1000-1400 shots. Why such as spread?  Just so you know, flashes even the same makes and models may be different.  

A lot depends on the condition, usage, how often, over-heated, age of the flash, distance you are shooting at, bounce gadgets, diffusion and that’s what effects the real numbers.  Anyone tell you different, well, you know what to do.

Generally my packs produce more raw power, more than I or any other disciplined EXPERIENCED shooter will use in most wedding scenarios. 

POINTS OF LIGHT...TACTICS:
The Black Box is just that, a stealthy black box filled with more power than the average shooter can shoot in a long session. No battery or financially draining complex electronics or extras. We use one really big reliable quality brand heavy duty battery.  Thats why we are doing business with forensic labs though most of the objects they shoot are inert or well into rigor-mortis but in forensics they can be on scene for a long time.  They are on-site sometimes for half a day. Since we do not use any type of acceleration or secondary capacitors which must be fed, the box is not eating it's own fuel. Long on-scene times are handled easily by the Black Box.

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING:
Most important of all our products are all made from RoHS certified parts and acceptable for overseas shipping and use, and our prices are better!  Lots better. We now have chargers for shipments to the U.K. most Euro countries, and Australia, New Zealand and other worldly locations that have to be RoHS registered for overseas shipment and work on most Euro systems.

GENERAL BUILD SPECIFICATIONS:  

BUILD: 100% all hand soldered AND SEALED using RoHS Certified appliance grade wiring. 3000 lb. stressed rivets with Backing Plates and a super tough case made in DENMARK. Reports from the field indicate the Denmark case survives the four foot bar-stool test. It may crack but it keeps on ticking!