>It was an older version and had a rubber boot over a switch on the >bottom, beside the battery cover. The rubber perished and presumably flooded >the unit. You may be able to dismantle it and scrub it out, use alcohol and water and a toothbrush. Dry well before reapplying power. >The one I have now is the "Firefly Rescue Lite ACR / 4G". It seems to be the >sliding magnetic switch that is playing up, as by pushing hard down on it >when sliding it sometimes worked. A possibility that the switch or magnet are out of alignment. I presume they use a reed switch. These are encapsulated in a glass tube and they do need to be aligned with the magnet to some extent to work. Dismantling and shorting the internal switch (reed) will check whether the unit works and then its a matter of sorting out the switch. >The other unit to fail was a cheaper unit that took a C cell battery and had >a rotating magnetic switch on the bottom. It has failed in the strobe unit >itself, as far as my limited testing can ascertain. You can always bring them to a kayak meeting and I'll have a look at them. Let me know and I'll bring a meter. Alex . . *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Nov 17 2002 - 12:55:11 PST
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