Sea Dragon 1200 acting strangely - want's to be a flash.

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On my third day of a trip to Curacao, and my new SD 1200 video light has stopped working properly. The battery is fully charged, but after about 5 minutes of burn time, it starts flashing on and off like a strobe. Turning it off and restarting seems to have no effect - it's still an intermittent strobe.

Very frustrating, as I'm here to get some diving in, but the brand new light has let me down.

Has anyone else experienced this?
 
Thanks for the post. This is the first time we have heard of this problem. A suggestion to try is disabling the Auto Flash Detect. Maybe the light sensor that activates the auto detect feature went bad. Hope this gets the light working until you get home and we can replace the light.

Here’s how you disable the auto flash detect:

The light includes a flash sensor that will turn off the light for 2 seconds
if it detects an external flash firing. This feature helps reduce
backscatter. You may disable the auto flash detect as follows:
1) With light in the OFF state, push and hold the power button for 3 seconds.
2) Release the power button when the indicator lights begin blinking and light
turns off.
3) Two quick blinks per second indicates Flash Detect is enabled. One blink
per second means the Flash Detect is disabled.
4) Push and release power button to switch modes.
5) Push and hold the power button to save and exit the Flash Detect setting.
Please contact us at techservice@sealife-cameras.com.
 
BTW, I did as suggested, pulled the battery and then set it back to auto detect flash. That seemed to solve the problem.

Obviously something got messed up in the logic, but the 'reset' appeared to solve the problem.

Thanks (very belatedly) for the help.
 
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