Marcum Flashers

[fisherman-andy]

[Nick Kuhn]

Why does the marcum need to push so much power? Is the ducer not as sensitive as the vex? 2500 watts to 400 is a big difference? What makes it need so much? How about battery life then...is this effected with so much output?

It's all about the amplitude of the return. Both transducers will probably sense down to about the same minimum signal return. The difference is @2500 Watts a Marcum will see specs of algae if you want it to. For reference I run a HB 798 in open water and that throws off a 4000 Watt pulse: guys using the 800 or higher series are throwing out 8000 Watts. And yes, with that much power increasing the sensitivity to max will result in you seeing nothing but algae.

[Hawg]

Did I see in one of the flyers this weekend that the big MarCum was $699?????? WOW

[brian6715]

Did I see in one of the flyers this weekend that the big MarCum was $699?????? WOW

and they are selling them faster than they can produce them

[iffwalleyes]

I used to have an LX3 and my brother had an LX3tc. My transducer was shot in two years time, my brothers only took one year. I really don't think the transducers on those units were built to take the punishment of all that power. I am now going on year 5 of my FL18 and haven't had one hiccup since purchasing it. I don't mean to bash Marcum but just wanted to share my experience.

Back on some of the early LX 3 they had some transducer issue it was attributed to a bad batch. Anyhow if you contact Marcums customer service they should behind it and usually had you fixed up with in a couple days at no cost. As far as the powere difference as it was described on top of the page it right on. Typically I fish at around a 2 I think on my sensitivty. Probably more power that is needed . I love my LX 5 I have a first year production one and other than sending it in for a cleaning to crisp everything back to where it was on the day I bought it I've do nothing to it and it has all of hours on it. I did switch to a humminbird last year but still used the LX 5. I sold a buddy my LX 3 and he still use to this day. It is personal choice. Personally I feel that I get more flexability with both the Humminbird and LX 5, LX 3 over any product Vex puts out. Only huge change in a vex over the years is the price and the carrying case .

[CaptainMusky]

Did I see in one of the flyers this weekend that the big MarCum was $699?????? WOW

Yeah, its an amazing deal. Compared to the fl22 at $619 its like going from one of those a typewriter (vexilar) to an Ipad2 (LX7).

[hamms-scooter]

What is the change between the lx-3 and lx-3tc? How much better is the change they made? Also difference between the lx-5 and lx-3tc? other then sfl

[desert_bulls]

I believe the lx3-tc is for the true color. That is were the lines are more crisp then the older 3lx. The lx-5 has 2500 watts of peak to peak power, the lx-3 has 2000 watts of peak to peak power.

[CaptainMusky]

I believe the lx3-tc is for the true color. That is were the lines are more crisp then the older 3lx. The lx-5 has 2500 watts of peak to peak power, the lx-3 has 2000 watts of peak to peak power.

Yes, true color. They used to blend the colors together to make an orange, but with TC its not its a true orange. That is why you can clearly see distinct sharp lines.

Many guys were able to get their LX3 upgraded to TC from Marcum, but they no longer offer that.

[Twins Guy]

also the lx5 comes speced with an 8/20 dual transducer where the lx3 comes with a single 20 degree cone ducer.