Aqua Vu Scout Problem

[mike jupiter]

My Aqua Vu Scout is no longer working. It's two years old and has only been used a handful of times. The camera seems to be powered, seeing as the battery is fully charged, all cables are plugged in correctly, and the red light turns on the monitor. However, I get no picture at all. I thought that in the past a green light on the monitor would come on, not a red one.

Either way I talked to Aqua Vu support and they said they believe it's a faulty monitor... but I don't want to spend $50 on a brand new monitor if that's not the problem.

Any ideas/suggestions/comments?

[rmrakt]

Try a different battery. Even tho your battery seems fully charged it might not handle the load anymore.

[leech~~]

Mike, look into the end of your camra and see if it is cloudy, or has water in it. If so it shorted out! Happened to me twice!

[mike jupiter]

I'll take a look at that. Leech what did you do after it shorted out? Get a new camera cable?

[Deitz Dittrich]

First try a new battery, they are cheap and you can always use extra.. next take an rca jack and plug your unit into your tv and see if you see an image.. if you see an image, its your monitor, if you dont it could be your camera...

[bangNbulls]

Hi,

Same thing happen to me. Aqua Vu support told me the same thing. They acted like it was a common problem with the scout. I upgrade to the XL for $75(I think). bNb

[leech~~]

mike, I actually had it repaired twice, once by them because it was under warranty and then the second time I paid. When it happened again I threw it in the trash and got a different off brand camra from the Pro shop on hwy 65 which I have had for 3 years now. I think I posted this on another tread that it was not that the camra leaked but the metal braided wire on the inside pokes little holes in the rubber cover and the water leaks down through the cord into the top of the camra and gets inside of it that way. They told me they were working on a way to fix that issue, but I wasn't going to wait for them to fix their problem.

[Dead-C-Force]

Hey Gents.. I am new here... is it inappropriate to state that I am interested in buying dead Aqua Vu systems? The new cameras are just over a hundred bucks now- don't put a lot into trying to fix old ones..

[zamboni]

Quote:

mike jupiter I thought that in the past a green light on the monitor would come on, not a red one.

Red light on for the monitor, and the green light means your LEDs are on on the camera. Should be 2 seperate lights, in 2 seperate areas

[John Mickish]

If the scout has a video out just plug it into any tv that has a video in. If it all works then that pinpoints the monitor is the problem. Just replace it with any 12V TV and your set.

[decoy]

Could be the internal fuse.

That happened to mine last year.

$5 at a local tv repair shop.

[Dead-C-Force]

The other weak link with the Aqua Vu stuff is that black plastic screw-twist connector that has all the pins in it-- that connector freq. goes bad. Aqua Vu charges 45$ plus shipping to replace the connector.

You can buy pretty decent new underwater cameras for just over 100$ (I would not get a fish tv, perhaps another scout).

[jhol]

Dead Force,

you are right with the connector from the camera to the switchboard mine went out and twisted of the wire, so I took it apart and am going to resolder the wires. Now I just need nature vision to call me back and tell me what color wires go to what number on the connector.

[Crickschop04]

Does anyone know what color goes with what number on the connector?

[Crickschop04]

Anybody know the color to number combinations?