Apologizes for the stupid question but I'm still fairly new to mid-range camera housings. I've always used crappy point and shoots and never bothered with a vacuum port but I recently purchased a Sony A400 with an Ikelite 200DLM/A Underwater Housing and DLM 6" Dome Port.
I installed a Vivid Leak Sentinel V5 in this housing. I noticed unfortunately that my camera seems to be losing vacuum after about ~3-4 hours. I cleaned the main o-ring seal and dome port o-ring but it seems the issue is still persisting. I noticed this and opted not to dive with the camera so now I'm trying to troubleshoot a bit more. I've timed it a couple times but it seems to lose part of the vacuum after 3-4 hours. When I left it overnight there was still a minor vacuum in the housing
My procedure has been to pump a vacuum until the sensor turns green and then I've been doing 3-4 additional pumps after that to ensure a good vacuum. This morning I woke up and checked the vacuum again and it's alternating between red/green so it seems to be slowly losing vacuum.
I assume this is not safe to dive or is a 4 hour vacuum sufficient? I've obviously got a leak somewhere it seems. I really don't feel like flooding my new camera. This also seemed to happen on a dive last winter but thankfully the camera didn't flood (I was in a cave and couldnt really quickly ascend).
I'm going to order a new o-ring face seal and o-ring for the dome port but if that doesnt work I assume I should send the housing in for service? Are there any other less obvious things I should check or tips/tricks?
The housing is less than year old. I've maybe got 15-20 dives with it (mostly in caves and one or two salt water dives) .
I installed a Vivid Leak Sentinel V5 in this housing. I noticed unfortunately that my camera seems to be losing vacuum after about ~3-4 hours. I cleaned the main o-ring seal and dome port o-ring but it seems the issue is still persisting. I noticed this and opted not to dive with the camera so now I'm trying to troubleshoot a bit more. I've timed it a couple times but it seems to lose part of the vacuum after 3-4 hours. When I left it overnight there was still a minor vacuum in the housing
My procedure has been to pump a vacuum until the sensor turns green and then I've been doing 3-4 additional pumps after that to ensure a good vacuum. This morning I woke up and checked the vacuum again and it's alternating between red/green so it seems to be slowly losing vacuum.
I assume this is not safe to dive or is a 4 hour vacuum sufficient? I've obviously got a leak somewhere it seems. I really don't feel like flooding my new camera. This also seemed to happen on a dive last winter but thankfully the camera didn't flood (I was in a cave and couldnt really quickly ascend).
I'm going to order a new o-ring face seal and o-ring for the dome port but if that doesnt work I assume I should send the housing in for service? Are there any other less obvious things I should check or tips/tricks?
The housing is less than year old. I've maybe got 15-20 dives with it (mostly in caves and one or two salt water dives) .
