A good friend and dive buddy purchased one of these new along with an OM camera, lenses, UWL-09Pro and a macro lens. He used it in the fall in Roatan and the vac system never reliably gave a green light and would flash red. He dived the rig anyways and enjoyed it but for the lack of vacuum system function. He returned and sent it back to----- who then charged him several hundred dollars to repair the faulty system on a brand new out of the box unit. Now, the past two weeks, back in Roatan, same thing. Out of 40 dives he got a steady green light maybe three times. And the flash trigger went dead several dives!

Is this a known issue? Is there a fix or special technique or is this brand new, now repaired once already ($$) and still not working housing just in need of some more repairs?

I just got back from Roatan for my octo housing set's maiden voyage and it worked flawlessly for over 40 dives.

9 hours ago, ACHiPo said:

I just got back from Roatan for my octo housing set's maiden voyage and it worked flawlessly for over 40 dives.

We just got back also. Where did you stay? Hope you had a great trip!

Good news your rig worked perfect. I am beginning to wonder if there is an operator issue though I see nothing he was doing that did not seem right. It is as if the electronics sensitivity is too much and a small fluctuation sets the red light to flashing though there is no leak.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Nemrod

Perhaps he needs to pump it a few more strokes so that changes temperature don't cause the red light. I usually give my (Nauticam) vacuum system a couple of pumps past when the light turns green.