Is my 430 EXII dying?

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I bought a 430exii flash a while ago (secondhand, on here). Has been perfect whenever I've needed to use it. It's been a few months since I've played around with it and I've moved house. Dug it out today to use whilst visiting the in-laws, switched it on and got no response. LCD didn't display anything and no whirring sound. Tried two more lots of batteries with no response.

Decided to recharge the batteries and try again. It started up as normal, stayed on for 30 secs and stopped. Tried it again and it stayed on till I fiddled with the zoom setting. In all cases the pilot light hasn't lit up.

Batteries are ansmann 2850 and I've used them for about three recharge cycles.

Not sure if it's just a battery issue or something more sinister. What can I do next?

First point might be to try a set of fresh non rechargeable AA batteries but if this doesn't work what else can I do?
 
Not sure if this is the case here but I have an old Vivitar flash that seems to take quite a few charge cycles to restore it's performance if it's been left unused for a long time. I just assumed it was something to do with the capacitors being left un charged for a while.

HH

David
 
Nothing in the battery compartment. I've been recharging my entire set of rechargeable batteries and the flash seemed to be fine with the second set. Pilot light came on and I was able to do a test fire. Will retry the first set tonight and see if it's a dodgy battery issue.
 
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