INON S2000 Strobe

[hellhole]

For every strobe u should have 2 set of battery. U will know when the batteries are weak when it take longer then normal to fire again. But it will still fire... Just take longer. I change out batteries every day for a 3 dive day.

 

[bvanant]

NiMH batteries do indeed outgas, but the gas is neither toxic nor corrosive, it is Hydrogen. Unfortunately if they outgas significantly under water then you might get a leak but unless the cell itself explodes there is no corrosion possible from the gas. I think that the caps of the S&S strobes do allow some gas release (there is some type of membrane in the cap).
Bill

 

[Gareth J]

With the INON be very careful using it outside the water, we killed an INON 2000 last year, when we looked closely there was a crack in the battery housing. We are pretty shore this was due to overheating rather than carelessness/dropping. We've gone back to Sea and Sea because in all the years we had SEA and SEA's we never damaged one.....flooded one yes, but damaged one, no.

Gareth

 

[diver 85]

Thank you everyone for all the information you gave me. I have one last question about batteries for the strobe. About how many dives/or amount of pictures can you do without having to change them out? I might check for the rechargeable batteries that everyone mentioned. Too bad that just last year I bought a bunch of rechargeable batteries but they aren't the correct ones for this strobe!

I change my eneloops out every other dive(even if they don't 'need it)-& usually shoot 150+ pics a dive......

 

[bvanant]

With the S2000 if you have cracked the case, it might be because the adapter screw that attaches a ball mount might be a bit too long. The IDAS adapters ship with a screw that is fine for the z240 but too long for the s2000 and it can crack the case if you tighten it too much.
Bill