Marcum problem.....

[climbmda]

Hi everyone-

I'm just testing out gear to hopefully get out there this afternoon. I had the battery disconnected all summer, and I plugged it in last night to charge. It read 100% on the DCS this morning. However, when I unplug it, the DCS display goes blank.

When I turn it on, I can hear the unit running, but none of the lights on the display, or the controls lights up. Do I just need a new battery, or is something wrong with the unit itself?

Thanks!

[Dano2]

How old is the battery?

[iffwalleyes]

I did the same thing last year myself. Except I left the DCS monitor hooked up all summer. It drained the battery down so far that it could not be recharged. So I had to replace the battery. I think the DCS would be ok. I don't suppose you have a extra battery that you could hook up try the charger out on do you?

[climbmda]

The battery has been used by me for 2 seasons. I bought the unit used, so it has one more year on it. I don't have another battery handy. I'll probably run get one, shortly.

[Dano2]

sounds like thats what it is, mine would do about the same, except after plugging in it would barely get a reading, although everything still worked.Mine was about 5 years old when I finally replaced it, although I did charge a couple times too, during the off season, not sure if they made a diff. or not. replaced battery and everything was fine, atleast them batteries are cheap.

[huntingislife]

I had this happen to an LX-3 over summer. I just left the charger on it for a week and it came back to life with no problems so far. It would gain about a volt of charge every day.

[IndyEFI500]

Something you might be able to try is using a regular car type charger. Put it on the 10 amp range for about 5 minutes and then on 2 amp for a half hour or so and then start process over. I have had some success in reviving some batteries of similar style. The product that I pulled the batties from had a compterized circuit that would do this automatically. Something about blasting the built up sulfides from the plates when you do this. As I said, I have had SOME success in doing this.