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Storing your flasher

Hory

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This is my first year owning a flasher (VX-1 Pro). I was wondering if there is somthing special I need to do with the battery or any other components of the flasher before I put it into storage (my hunting/fishing closet) Thanks for the help!

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Ed Carlson Grand Master

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Fully charge the battery and disconnect the battery terminals.

I recommend you also set a couple reminder/dates on your colander every 2 months to recharge the battery then your system will be healthy come next ice season. Lets say June 1st, August 1st, and October 1st. If you remember at least 2, your still good.

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WAY TOO EARLY to be seeing this post...

+1

And I do the same as some others have stated. Fully charge the battery and pull the wires off. I try to remember to charge the battery throughout the off months at least twice, but I think I only remembered to do it once last year.

On a side note, how did you like your new flasher?

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I agree to early for this...Why would you store away the #1 tool for finding fish? Mine is in the boat all season after ice season. I put it side by side to the cheap graph i have and it is 7 seconds faster (With real time) then the graph.I see fish on my vex and 7 seconds later there they are on the graph.It tells you the history of what you saw instead of what is there i prefer the flasher in the boat.

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I know it is early...but I have over a week of spring break ahead in a week or so coupled with work/class leading up to then. I also mainly fish the river in my hometown which is far from LOTW or any place like that and when I was out at the end of January I had 8 in. of ice at most. This will probably be one of my last weekends out for the season. Thanks for all the info.

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Left mine connected to the terminals over the offseason last year and that battery drained out completely. It wouldn't hold a charge this year.

I recommend you also set a couple reminder/dates on your colander

That's a good idea. That way every time I make spaghetti, I am reminded that I need to charge my vex battery grin

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The ice doesnt melt, it cries. laugh

lmao. That has to be one of the best lines I have heard in a while.

For storage I always keep my vex on a shelf in the garage and I use the battery in the boat for the graph. I don't like lugging around a big battery if I don't have to and it works great for the fishfinder in the summer. Most of the time I don't need any kind of electronics other than that. I keep a solar charger on board and hooked up and its always ready to go.

In years past when I stored the vex and the battery I just charged it once during the summer and it was always fine.

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