Sea & Sea YS-110a TTL Strobe

[furby076]

Hello,

I have the Sea & Sea YS-11a TTL Strobe. Where the batteries sits, there are these flaps on the inside of the case. It broke. This previously happened on the battery cap, and was easy enough to replace. It also broke on the inside, which is much harder to fix (I imagine impossible).

The piece came from the inside of the strobe, not the battery cap
Has anyone had any luck fixing it?

 

[KeithG]

Please recheck. Your picture appears to be a postive cap tab.

The battery cap has 4 tabs, 2 negative and 2 positive. The negative tab is a bare piece of metal with a dimple with a hole in it. The positive tab has a dimple (no hole) and a plastic square on it that mechanically prevents a backwards battery (the flat negative end) from contacting the dimple on the metal tab. The black plastic square is a safety feature for when you screw up and put the (one, some, all?) batteries in backwards. A negative battery terminal will not connect with a postive cap tab. Only the button on the positive battery terminal can connect with the postive tab.

Your picture clearly shows the black plastic square on a metal tab. That is a positive battery cap tab.

The battery compartment has 2 stud posts and 1 t shaped metal double spring connector. The spring connecter does not have any plastic on it. The spring connector has 2 very small screws that fasten it in place. The spring connector can not "fall out".

p.s. I can not think of any way to break the spring connector in the battery compartment other than malicious intent.

---------- Post added December 23rd, 2015 at 09:56 PM ----------

If you actually did manage to break the t shaped spring connector in the battery compartment, it is trivial to fix - if you can find a spare part.

Simply unscrew the 2 screws, remove the broken spring, and re-install the replacement spring connector.

The spring connecter simply connects 2 batteries together inside the battery compartment. It has no wires or connections to the internals of the strobe.

 

[Larry C]

That does look like the cap tab, not the lower tab. The lower contacts can be replaced as a set by a Sea & Sea dealer for about $125. The replacement cap will run you about $60.