Choosing a better-but-still-cheap flash trigger system

After using the old and trusted Cactus V2s system for over 1.5 years, I got tired of the 10m range limitation.

The last drop happened when I was offered the cance to shoot a theather play from the stage facing the audience and the actors.
No way would I risk letting 60+ people and 6 actors see me failing to take a photo because of trigger issues.

Being an amateur,I can’t really justify Pocket Wizards, AlienBee’s Cybersyncs.Even RadioPoppers are a bit over the top .

So I did the research on which are the best and cheapest radio triggers in the market

RF-602 (by YongNuo)

This ended up being my choice .
They are from a Chinese company called YongNuo, with a mainly eBay presence.
http://stores.shop.ebay.es/hkyongnuophotoequipment
http://www.hkyongnuo.com

All reviews are very positive.
The 100m range,the 2.4GHz and the AAA battery made the choice easy. All other “cheap” alternatives were 10-30m in range.

Receiver: RF-602rx Transmitter: RF-602tx

100m range 2.4 GHz 15ch + All-channels

Model URL: http://www.hkyongnuo.com/e-detail.php?ID=209 Here is a good review of them http://scubajunkie-mymind.blogspot.com/2009/09/yongnuo-rf-602-review-couple-of-years.html

ebay.es : From HK	ebay.es : From Europe
1xRX: 15€ 1xTX + 1xRX: 27€ 1xTx + 2xRX: 46€ 1xTx + 3xRX: 53€ 1xTx + 4xRX: 66€	1xRX: 23€ 1xTX + 1xRX: 33€ 1xTx + 2xRX: 51€ 1xTx + 3xRX: 67€ 1xTx + 4xRX: 83€

Just for your convenience, I gathered the other options and grouped the info into a nice table for comparison:

	GI Cactus	GI Cactus	YN	YN	YN	YN	GI Cactus
	V2s	V4s	RF-602	CTR-301P	CTR-301	PT-04M + RF604\	RD616 (studio)
	link V2s	link v4		link CTR-301p			link RD616
Range	10m	30m	100m	30m / 10m??		30m
Ch	4	16	15+all	4		4	16
Freq	433MHz	433MHz	2.4GHz	433MHz		433MHz
Sync	??	1/500s	1/250s
Response	1/1000s	1/1000s
Flash V	< 12V	< 300V
Rx Batt	1xCR2 3V	2xAAA 1.5V	2xAAA 1.5V			2xAAA
Tx Batt	1xL1028/23A 12V	1xL1028/23A 12V	1xL1028/23A 12V			1xL1028/23A 12V