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That is a little misleading. They work right out of the box and updates are very rare. I seem to remember that you run Lowrance on your boat. How many times have you updated the Lowrance over the past 3 years to fix glitches compared to the number of downloads Marcum has issued over the same time period?
Every time there is a new update so about once a year some years were twice. If one comes out this year will do it to if they continue updates for the Gen 1 units
Flx28 is what it is and will not be able to be improved. My lx6 can only get better.
as in??? They can't update the hardware, only the software. Your lx6 cant really get better, it can just look different
Sure it can get better. Doesn't adding functionality improve a device? Isn't the "look" of a flasher's screen have a direct impact on the information you are seeing? Does that not improve the device?
absolutely. I was just thinking updates like my cellphone's updates. they don't make my phone any "better"...just change how it functions, and its not always an improvement.
Having used a 28 it is not in the same league as the 7 maybe close to being equal to a 5 but not quite
Who wants to tool around with updates when something should work as advertised right out of the box?I honestly don't see why people think having to update your equipment is an advantage in any way, at all.Same old song and dance.
Not sure where you get your information but nobody has to update their unit. Mine worked right out of the box. Haven't made any updates. I have the OPTION to do so. You can keep your old song and dance. I like my music better.
Yea, ok esox. Not equal to the Lx5 come on. Not in the same league as the 7? Why? Because it can't be "updated". Sure happy that everyone is soooooo happy with the new 4.07 software that just came out. I knew that last update was going to flop. I had the exact issues regarding over sensitivity on the trial 4.01 software that I was sent and called Marcum twice about it. Chris and another guy sat there and stated how they never heard of the issue happening and they'd look into it. It seems like they chose not to fix it and now look at the other thread about the upgrade. Selling my 9 was the best decision I have made in the past 2 years. 2nd best was going with the FLX28. Slaughtering fish and not dickin around glare, a million options. Drop the ducer down and see the fish. Weeds... boom quick click to weed mode and that's it. Yes, I know esox, this is where you say the, "well Marcum doesn't need the weed or low power modse it's got.... blah, blah, blah." or the old stand by "well they miss fish that are hugging the bottom." Yes, we know. You've shared those rehashed lines many times the past couple years. In regards to the LP or weed modes, there is different way of doing things to end up at the same result. Doesn't mean one necessarily does it better than the other. In regards to missed bottom huggers, I can't say if past Vexilar units have or have not. However I do know that I have not seen that issue once with FLX28. This all said, the Lx7/9 and the FLX28 are in different leagues only because they are two totally different units. Like comparing a bucket of fish. They're all fish, but many are not the same. You're trying to take a 30 inch walleye and a 15 inch perch and say that the walleye is more impressive because it's bigger, when both are both impressive in their respective areas. The Lx5 I will never knock. Had the 28 not been out I would have repurchased it. It was ahead of it's time when it came out, but like most electronics at its age it is showing it's short comings on the visual side of things. Fine line mode is nice, but has been equaled with the 28. Still only has a 3 color pallet. Not a flat screen. The list continues. The only thing I was worried about not having with the 28 was adjustable zoom and I have yet to even miss it or need it. Functionality side is still great and a great unit to own. Just not as nice the the 28. The bias on these things is crazy, and honestly I don't care what name is on my flasher. I want to go out there, throw my ducer in the hole and fish. Weather I see fish or not I want to be based on my positive or negative ability to locate them in the body of water I'm on and not have to wonder if the unit is functioning properly. Further more I like to have the sensitivity and mark size on the screen of jigs, fish, weeds, etc. to be in proportion. That's something I've found with the 28 and is why I'm going to stick with it. If a person finds there taste with a different unit that's great. If Marcum goes back and does another mechanical flasher with an expanded color pallette and other worth while options,, I'm sure I'll be looking into it, but until then there is no way I'm touching a another digital unit for quite a while. Not worth the hassles.On a side note I really think a bad decision Marcum made was not separating their Digital and Mechanical series by different models. Lx should have continued as their mechanical series and a different model (DX, SX, whatever "x") should have been made for the digital series. If they chose to go to a mechanical flasher, they probably do a Lx5.__ or something higher than a 9 I guess.
yea those vexilars are a hell of a unit check out the fl22s
This is between the LX7 and the FLX28, of which the 28 is the clear winner. See what I did there?
we fish lx7s and lx9s here there's always room for vexilars on the clearance rack
Fun ny thing is every time on I go to the Bargain Cave in the Hamburg store the Marcums are what fill up the cave.
Bought a flx-28
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