Wondering whether anyone else has experienced this issue: I recently bought an I-Dive Black Star BS30 video light. All appeared fine in a brief dry test as soon as I got it, so I took it on a dive trip I was going on a few days later.
Then the problems started. After one day of working fine underwater, it then started refusing to switch on and - more alarmingly - would switch on by itself and cycle through the various modes of its own accord: white light, red light, UV/blue light in varying order. It turned the dive boat into a disco. The only way to switch it off when it was doing this (on the surface of course) was to unscrew the battery compartment completely.
I sent it back to the seller, who said they checked it and found nothing wrong. They sent it back to me and the problems started again - it switched itself on inside my camera bag, burning a hole through a thin protective cover I had it in and completely draining the batteries. I bought new batteries in case they were causing the problems, and after initially working very briefly, it again started behaving strangely (switched on by itself) and now won't switch on at all, despite freshly charged batteries.
I've had the batteries checked at a specialist shop, and they say there is no way they could be causing this.
I'm just wondering whether anyone else has experienced this kind of issue with this light (or any other light) and whether anyone has any idea what might be causing it. The only thing I can think of is that the light is faulty, but then how could the seller not have found any issue with it when I sent it back to him originally?
Any suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Then the problems started. After one day of working fine underwater, it then started refusing to switch on and - more alarmingly - would switch on by itself and cycle through the various modes of its own accord: white light, red light, UV/blue light in varying order. It turned the dive boat into a disco. The only way to switch it off when it was doing this (on the surface of course) was to unscrew the battery compartment completely.
I sent it back to the seller, who said they checked it and found nothing wrong. They sent it back to me and the problems started again - it switched itself on inside my camera bag, burning a hole through a thin protective cover I had it in and completely draining the batteries. I bought new batteries in case they were causing the problems, and after initially working very briefly, it again started behaving strangely (switched on by itself) and now won't switch on at all, despite freshly charged batteries.
I've had the batteries checked at a specialist shop, and they say there is no way they could be causing this.
I'm just wondering whether anyone else has experienced this kind of issue with this light (or any other light) and whether anyone has any idea what might be causing it. The only thing I can think of is that the light is faulty, but then how could the seller not have found any issue with it when I sent it back to him originally?
Any suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
