Today, I fired up the Aqua Vu Z-60 in preparation for another season of ice fishing and the screen was blank!! After messing around with it a bit, I found out that the connection was open at the crimp point where the cable meets the camera. Anyone else seen this issue?
The reason I ask is that Nature Vision wants nearly $100 to replace / repair the camera and cable ($90 plus my expense to ship to them) and I would sure hate to plop down that kind of cash only to find out that this is a common problem and have the thing screw up on me again. In addition, Nature Vision suggested that I could jury rig the camera by “making a loop in the cable near the camera” to close the connection. Based on this comment, I am under the impression that they have heard of this issue before. Since I use this system only for ice fishing and never with the lead weights, I am also under the impression that there is a potential design issue at the cable / camera junction. Is this the case or do I just have an infrequent and unusual issue? How about the Marcum cameras; any similar issues with these?
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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Today, I fired up the Aqua Vu Z-60 in preparation for another season of ice fishing and the screen was blank!!
After messing around with it a bit, I found out that the connection was open at the crimp point where the cable meets the camera. Anyone else seen this issue?
The reason I ask is that Nature Vision wants nearly $100 to replace / repair the camera and cable ($90 plus my expense to ship to them) and I would sure hate to plop down that kind of cash only to find out that this is a common problem and have the thing screw up on me again. In addition, Nature Vision suggested that I could jury rig the camera by “making a loop in the cable near the camera” to close the connection. Based on this comment, I am under the impression that they have heard of this issue before. Since I use this system only for ice fishing and never with the lead weights, I am also under the impression that there is a potential design issue at the cable / camera junction. Is this the case or do I just have an infrequent and unusual issue? How about the Marcum cameras; any similar issues with these?
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