Really, I used them in a studio in 1953. If you have plugged it into 110 A/C power and turned it on and it hasn't blown up, and triggering it and it produces a flash, without blowing up, then you might be able to use it. And likely the cord you are referring to is the sync cord that probably has an old style Ilex shutter connector. That old sync cord should probably be replaced with a new cord (keeping the connector for the flash generator) with a standard PC connector on the end to plug into your camera.

Man, you are taxing my memory! And, be careful, don't go digging inside - if the capacitors are charged they can produce a very strong shock.

OK. I've plugged it in and fired it a couple times with no apparent problems. A friend worked at a storage unit and paid up the delinquent charge to get some other stuff. He found two B&W film processing machines plus this light system.
The connecter in question, Would it have to be something that would attach to the hotshoe on my camera and where would I look to find something like this?
Thanks, Rod

OK, so far. Now if the cord you mentioned, which I assume is the synch cord for the Kodatron flash, when the Kodatron is turned on, if it has just two wires, a twin plug connector; then the flash should fire when those two connectors are shorted. Use something like a plastic handled screw driver to do this to avoid a shock, old flash systems had pretty high synch voltage.

You don't dare make a hard-wire connection between the Kodatron and your Rebel through the hot-shoe, as high voltage could damage the camera. So the best way to trigger the synch on the Kodatron is to use a slave sensor/receiver, just a simple cheap one, which can be obtained from Adorama at: http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=itemlist&cat1=Flash/Lighting&cat2=...

As I suggested the sync cord on the Kodatron should be a two wire/connector, so you will need to then adapt to the two terminal connector of the slave unit. You may have to experiment to get the polarity right.

You can trigger the Kodatron then with the built-in flash of your Rebel. If that works then to get serious using the Kodatron flash, you can get a small hot-shoe infrared flash sync generator that plugs into the hot-shoe of your camera.

Great. Thanks, I'll see what I can find and let you know.
Thanks again, Rod