John wrote: - >Perhaps the manufactures never anticipated the strobes would get wet so very >often? I suppose they were only designed to be used once (if at all!) in the >water. Man overboard situations are fairly infrequent for large craft, I suppose. G'Day John and Paddlewise, Your point about larger craft makes sense but I'ld be dubious about accepting that as an excuse. Some of the racing skiffs and smaller sailing boats in our area have crew that get soaked frequently and wear their PFD's and wetsuits all the time! There may be a cultural difference - I can see that regular soaking might not be anticipated in a colder climate where immersion is far more hazardous. The company that sold me one of the failed strobes was good enough to replace it and the replacement unit hasn't failed yet so I am assuming the original was a faulty unit. I still don't feel confident with it and will replace it when I replace my EPIRB. The second strobe failed not due to water ingress but some kind of electronic fault It was a truly hermetically sealed unit - sorry - should have made that clear in my earlier post. Regards, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Nov 18 2002 - 12:17:11 PST
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