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Marcum battery meter

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do these things go bad often? My marcum LX-3 is about 5 years old. I just bought a new battery this winter. I seem to be running down to 20 and sometimes 0% by the end of the day starting from a full charge. Meter says 100% by morning. I have not ran the unit dead or experienced problems with weak battery symptoms.

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If your talking about the digital meter I will say the Marcum flasher units that I have owned 2 of them have gone bad to where they will always show 100% charged. If you start actually charging them it will show the correct charging percentage to where it fully charged. But will never show drain during use.

Marcum no longer sells these digital displays units. As to reason why they likely had a lot of problems...

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Could be your charger, or battery too. I had this same problem 2 years ago with my LX5. I used a different trickle charger and the problem seemed to fix it. I then ordered another DCS and that fixed the problem. Turned out the Digital battery meter was fine. It was the charger that pluged into it that went bad. I am not sure what yours will be. I have also had bad batteries in the past that were brand new. A little trial and error and you will find the problem.

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My buddy has the same unit with the exact same issue. He was told by marcum that it is the battery meter. This happened right out of the box. He bought it at the ice fishing show and was never given a replacement. Needless to say he's not a big fan of them anymore.

In lieu of full disclosure, marcum did test the battery and they said "the battery is good".

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Its almost certainly the dcs unit charger. IMO they are worthless and prone to problems. I got rid of mine and just use the regular plug style charger and I have no trouble since. Lots of issues earlier swapped batteries etc but it ended up just being the dcs charger that was faulty.

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If your talking about the digital meter I will say the Marcum flasher units that I have owned 2 of them have gone bad to where they will always show 100% charged. If you start actually charging them it will show the correct charging percentage to where it fully charged. But will never show drain during use.

Marcum no longer sells these digital displays units. As to reason why they likely had a lot of problems...

I have had the same results with my MarCum battery charge gauges also.

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seem to be running down to 20 and sometimes 0% by the end of the day starting from a full charge. Meter says 100% by morning.

When you say your battery is at zero by the end of they day, how long is that?

I get about 7 hours off a charge.

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7 hours out of a battery that is over a year old is about average. The older they get the less time you will get out of them.

If your gauge says 50% after 7 hours of use, what does it say after you plug the charger in? Probably less then 50% has been my experience.

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I have an LX-5 that's about 4 years old now. I got a new battery last year and the meter started to go bad on me (I don't know if this happened to you as well or if it has anything to do with the battery meter) but I just make sure I give it a full charge over night before I go out and not look at the meter, because it will read 0% all day long. I also found that charging the battery with a different charger (I use a "battery tender") gives it longer life.

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i have a LX-7, it takes three days before it gets fully charged. Anyone else having the same issue, or is this normal.

I don't want to sabotage the original posters topic but a quick response...

Mine was doing that for the first month but now I can get a full charge overnight. My only guess is that it corrected itself by running a few full cycles through the battery.

You may want to start a new topic in regards to LX-7 charger and battery.

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