Does anyone else have the new 177-2 compact foot controller module

I've been using the original foot controller module, with a continuous pedal and a double foot switch, for 11 years, and got this one to save space. But I'm having two big problems with it:

1. When the footswitch output is patched into an S&H module, it triggers both when pressing and releasing the pedal, or both at the onset and release of the gate signal. The original pedal would trigger only with the onset of the gate. Is this a real difference with the original 177, or is mine defective

2. Again when patched into an S&H module, if I press one footswitch, it sends signal out BOTH outputs. But very confusingly, when I tested this by patching the footswitch outputs into the Trigger Modifier module, this doesn't happen; it appears there to be working correctly. But then when I move the outputs back into the trigger input of the S&H module, I get this wrong behavior again. I even tried moving the modules into a different case to see if there were some power supply issue; even alone in an otherwise empty case, I get the same results.

Any ideas

thanks,
Ernst