Photo sensor on SeaLife strobe has failed -- repairable?

[Rich Wilkman]

I bought a SeaLife 1200 Elite a couple years back. Mid dive it just stopped firing the strobe (my reward was a lot of 'shadow fish' ).

I've debugged it to the photo sensor at the strobe head itself. It is not tripping at all so the strobe never gets the signal to fire.

I can't find a part for it but it would be a shame to have to drop nearly $300 on a new head for a $3 part. Tips?

-Rich

 

[DandyDon]

Yep, contact Sealife. Great customer service. I am not sure what they will do, but I bet you'll like it.

 

[Rich Wilkman]

Thanks. I'll be buggered if I can see how as the part is embedded in the unit, but I'll drop them a note. I miss the old days of parts diagrams.

-Rich

 

[Rich Wilkman]

Just closing the loop. I exchanged some email back and forth with Sealife to make sure my diagnostics hadn't missed something stupid. No joy (or, some joy because I hadn't missed something stupid ), so an RMA was issued. Sent it in and then got it back. As near as I can tell, the whole encased innards were swapped, but it works again! No muss, no fuss. I wish I knew what was actually wrong, but that's small potatoes.

Props to the folks at SeaLife! I should have sent it in earlier instead of having it as a roundtoit project.

Guess I can go and illuminate more fish butts. How *do* they know the right time to turn tail?

-Rich