Vexilar or ????

[Shack]

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with marcum your looking about 30 days

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I have heard they tell you 30 days, but it sometimes only takes a couple.

Good point though!

[vern]

My brother's Vexilar FL-8 stopped working recently after 10+ years. On Wednesday I dropped it off for repair at Vexilar in Bloomington. They called him this morning and said it was fixed & ready to go. It cost him $40 and it runs like new again in under 24 hours! That's great service & very convenient if you live in the Minneapolis area. Personally, I've had an old Micronar FL-8 for almost 20 years and an FL-18 for at least 5. That's the first time I've had to drop one off for repair and I fish at least 2 times a week. I've never used a Marcum but I'm sure they're great units also. Just thought I'd share my repair experience with Vexilar.

[gofish21b]

i have both an fl-18 and a lowrance x-67c ice machine. i like both of them, but for different uses and reasons. the fl-18 is my deep water machine with the bottom zoom for low lying fish in 30-40 feet of water. you can't beat it in that environment. and not that it doesn't work great in other areas, but, if i am fishing in any sort of sediment bottom or heavy weeds the vex picks up more distortion than i care for and i can fish a whole lot better with the lowrance. the difference is just that the vexilar doesn't have the same filtering ability as the x67. i can change both my spectrum and my intensity to eliminate any distortion which i can't do with my vexilar. if you have a lowrance you know exactly what i mean, but you probably also know that in the 30 foot-plus range your bait starts to vanish, which doesn't happen with an fl-18. i have played with both for several years now and can't give one up for the other. if i was to start fresh i would go with the lowrance first and then the fl-18. seeing as the fl-18 only sees water 10-20 times a year and the x-67 is my constant companion.

[BoxMN]

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with marcum your looking about 30 days

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I have heard they tell you 30 days, but it sometimes only takes a couple.

Good point though!

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I did need service on my lx5. Sent it in on a Tuesday (left my house on Tuesday) and had it back Thursday to my house. It won't take 30 days, no way. Wish I didn't need the service, but it has been great since. Good luck with whatever you get. BTW - Marcum service center is in anoka.