Jeff Mullins’s Underwater Leak Detector

The Underwater Camera Housings Leak Detector is an electronic device that has been designed to serve as a warning in case of a leak or excess moisture inside underwater camera housings. The unit warns the user with a flashing ultra-bright LED (Light Emitting Diode), that is visible from the outside of the housing and it is very easy to install in almost any housing. It comes complete with full-precise instructions for the photographer to install in a few minutes, as absolutely no tools are required for installation.

Battery
The Underwater Leak Detector comes with a new button cell (3 Volt - CR2025 or CR2023) which lasts for approximately one year, even when it is left in the Leak Detector.

Testing the Unit
The good news is that you don't really have to wait for a leak in order to see if your Underwater Leak Detector works. Instead, it is possible to test the unit prior to installing it inside the camera housing.
Testing the circuit is done by placing a damp finger on the copper lines, which should make the LED (Light Emitting Diode) begin flashing. Touching it again will turn the LED off, and the unit is now ready to be installed inside the housing.

The improved Underwater Leak Detector is compatible with a variety of underwater camera housings, including:

• Canon Compact Digital Camera Housings: As the G10, G9 and G7 Housings (WP-DC28, WP-DC21 & WP-DC11)
• Olympus Compact Digital Camera Housings: As the PT-015, PT-020, PT-027, PT-023, PT-030 and PT-037 Housings.
• Ikelite DSLR Camera Housings: For a wide variety of Nikon, Canon and Olympus DSLR cameras
• Ikelite Compact and Ultra Compact Camera Housings: For a wide variety of Nikon, Canon, Fuji, Sony and Olympus cameras
• Ikelite Video Housings: All Sony / JVC / Canon Housings
• 10 Bar & Fantasea DSLR and Compact Digital Camera Housings: For a wide range of Nikon, Canon and Olympus DSLR cameras, as well as Nikon, Canon, Sony and Panasonic compact digitals cameras

Check out the Underwater Leak Detector's Product Range Table, which consists of housing models that are compatible with the new unit.

Jeff is the designer and producer of the Underwater Leak Detector. He is an underwater photographer himself, with over 35 years of experience with both film and digital formats, and an electronics technician who has built and maintained his own underwater strobes and accessories, plus repaired and serviced housings for customers. In addition, Jeff is an underwater photo-journalist who has self-published two books: Dive Western Australia and Reef Wreck & Critter - Tulamben.