Sea&Sea has announced their new vacuum leak detection system for their MDX housings. Once activated and vacuum pumped, the temperature compensated circuit offer continued monitoring of its status via LEDs. The circuit can be installed by Sea&Sea.
Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon and regular contributor Alex Mustard discuss the pros and cons of vacuum housing leak detection systems, along with some ideas about how to use and maintain them in the field.
Gates Underwater Product’s John Ellerbrock provides a brief history of vacuum seal checking devices. Now consider de rigueur on most new housing purchases, it is interesting to note that the recent surge in their popularity has suggested that they are a new idea. John points out that filmmakers have been vacuum checking their housings for at least 70 years.