Inon S-2000 stopped functioning- to many flashes in a row!

I have 2 x S-2000 on my rig, and my wife one. On our recent trip to Asia, 2 of them failed suddenly on dives. First, one of mine stopped working, and a week later, my wifes gave up. Luckily a friend of ours had both an Z.240 and one S-2000, so we survived borrowing one....

I shipped both to Inon, Japan, for repair, and got a mail back, were they found out both PCB's vere "fried" due to too rapid firing sequences, with a PDF file describing the limitations. They offered to repair, and stated the cost.

I must admit I had never read this Operational Limitation document, but, from my EXIF data, I can not find that I have been shooting beyond the limit....so I think it's a bit unreasonable.

Just want to inform others that there is a limit....and enclose the document from Inon.

I am so far satisfied with Inon's service, and it is after all worth the repair, as new ones costs fairly more, and the 2 who failed have only been been used for 30 and 60 dives. They were both bought used, but was in very good condition, (one looked just like new, no visible scratches at all).

S-2000_Operational_Limitation_1_0_0__En.pdf

Sorry to hear about the failures. That's a real downer while on a trip!

I have a pair of these also. I have to say that I have never paid any attention to the "operational limits". I can easily exceed 100 flashes on some dives, and occasionally exceed 10 flashes in a row on a cooperative subject. So far I've have had no problems in over 4 years with these. I've hoping that there is more to this than just good luck.

I've burnt out the tubes on several Z240s and had them replaced, both by the dealer and with generics by a local place. I believe the dealer replaces the whole guts of the strobe when doing this. I usually dive in cold water and frying the flash tends to happen on a warm water trip shooting wide angle. It's very annoying. Now that I have a way to get them repaired locally I take it as a cost of having a compact strobe unit.