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LX-5 Question


bulldawger

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Just bought a new flasher a couple weeks ago and just tried firing it up today. I plugged the lines up to the battery and the meter said 76%. Went to turn it on and nothing. So I hooked up the charger. It's been charging for a couple hours. Should I be able to do the demo thing with it by now? Shouldn't it at least turn on while the charger is plugged in? Gettin a little nervous and hope nothing is wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks...p.s...brand new to the flasher thing... confused.gif

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Nope your doing it right, sounds like the wires are hooked up right, check the connections one more time. Hold the zoom button down while turning on the unit and it should go right to the simulator/demo mode. OOps almost forgot... Double check the power cord to the back of the power head too.

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Nope your doing it right, sounds like the wires are hooked up right, check the connections one more time. Hold the zoom button down while turning on the unit and it should go right to the simulator/demo mode. OOps almost forgot... Double check the power cord to the back of the power head too.


DUH..I wondered what those clips were on the two wires that I had hooked up, then I finally took the whole unit out of the bag and seen the other two wires in there. Hooked them up and bingo. Another question...does the transducer have to be below the bottom suface of the ice? Or just plopped down in the water a couple inches? You guys ever put on a demo at first ice, I would love to attend.

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I don't like putting mine under the ice but some times you have too. If you are getting a bunch of interferance at the top of the flasher than you should drop it down till it cleans up.

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If you're on quiet territory just under the water is fine. I've seen fish hiding just under the hole waiting for a freebie to drop down...Heavy traffic of peeps rolling around in ATV's Trucks and Snowmobiles will get you some interference while you're at it. Then I put it down deeper just past the ice bottom, or right up to it.

The deeper you put the transducer it reads bottom shallower, so add a foot/two/three depending on how deep your transducer is.

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I've always put my transducers under the ice to prevent any interference from the walls of the ice hole. I put it down just far enough so that the top of the transducer tucks under the ice and the cable runs flat against the side of the hole.

When I have a fish on the line I just grab the handle of the locator bag and lift everything straight out to prevent the fishing line from tangling with the transducer cable.

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I found out that I get a lot less interference without the cable touching the side of the ice at all. That's about most of the interference I get is from background static of people moving about and even hole drilling. At first I'd thought my LX-5 was messed up, constantly reading interference signals, but once that was cleared up, it worked great.

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