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    15 minutes ago, ChipBPhoto said:

    NOTE - it uses a rechargeable internal battery.

     

    While I personally prefer the individual CR style batteries due to having one less thing to remember to charge, it seems to be well made.  

     

    I'm with you, Chip, or preferring the CR replaceable batteries. 

     

    I had this discussion a few weeks ago with Miso over the Vivid Leak Sentinel. The V6  also now uses a rechargeable internal battery rather than the previous versions which used easily available CR batteries. Miso explained that this was due to the increasing power consumption of the boards he was using. 

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    18 minutes ago, Litos said:

    What about making your gear slightly bouyant?

     

    I think that's a reasonable idea if you're diving on deep walls where, if you let the camera go..... it's gone.

     

    But on dives where there is reachable bottom and you let the camera go when positively buoyant it will be very hard indeed to find if it gets to the surface. 

     

    I aim to have my system just very slightly negatively buoyant. 

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    As Chris writes, it's much simpler to have two strobes the same.

     

    Unless there is an overwhelming reason to use one strobe in particular, I'd also recommend going with two the same. Much easier for muscle memory changes to the settings, less faffing about, not yet another set of batteries/o-rings/spares to deal with; and as Chris so rightly says, less Murphy's Law of having the wrong strobe on the wrong side at the wrong time.

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    Good question.

     

    Happily I've never actually had to deal with the issue but understand entirely where you are coming from.

     

    The solution I developed for myself was to use two carabiners with detachable connectors (see photo). I clip a carabiner onto a D-ring on either side of the shoulder straps of my BCD; and the round snorkel retainers are fastened onto my strobe arms.

     

    If I need to free my hands, clipping the connectors together leaves my system (a D500 with Retra strobes) hanging from my BCD and reasonably manageable.

     

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