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Ice fishing locator batteries
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01/03/23 10:43 PM
01/03/23 10:43 PM
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B.R.Falls Wisconsin
JD Nichols
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Looking to upgrade from the standard SLA 12v 8ah to a lithium battery. Anyone have any experience with them?
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,totally worn out,shouting...
Wow-What a ride!"
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Re: Ice fishing locator batteries
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01/03/23 10:53 PM
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Colorado
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I have the lithium in mine and it is WELL worth doing. Specially if you have one of the top end machines. They will eat through a battery if you are using a lot of the functions. The lithium battery will last all day or more.
Why do I carry 10mm? Because shooting twice is just silly.
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Re: Ice fishing locator batteries
[Re: JD Nichols]
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01/03/23 11:03 PM
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MN
Steven 49er
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I have gone to lithium in the Vexilars and wont ever go back.
"Gold is money, everything else is just credit" JP Morgan
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Re: Ice fishing locator batteries
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01/04/23 01:09 AM
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Beaver Bayou MN
Mike Kelly
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Don't buy a Marcum Shuttle. Batteries are not that great in them, and custom size you cant replace with anything but OEM. Dealing with this right now, got 2 seasons of use out of it, and works for about 2 hours max this year. Seems like a very common issue. Guy that has tests/reviews on a lot of the Lithium batteries out there for ice fishing, and has a list of ones he recommends in the video description. This one is for the Marcum Brute Batteries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5e4GbYOLHM
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Re: Ice fishing locator batteries
[Re: JD Nichols]
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01/04/23 08:21 AM
01/04/23 08:21 AM
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Western Michigan
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My wife and i both use vexilars and never had any short life issues. I would expect to replace it every five years. We use ours almost every day during season. During the off season i remove both wires from the battery. Also put them on the chargers every other month to keep them fully charged. One of our chargers does take longer to charge than the other. I never knew they made lithium batteries for fish finders. If i have to replace, i may upgrade.
AKA: Rusty Shackleford
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Re: Ice fishing locator batteries
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01/04/23 07:35 PM
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B.R.Falls Wisconsin
JD Nichols
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I ordered the Brute 10 ah. Can't wait to put it to the test. I use a Lowrance Elite 7 HDI in ice mode split screen and it eats battery.
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,totally worn out,shouting...
Wow-What a ride!"
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Re: Ice fishing locator batteries
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01/04/23 08:12 PM
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Steven 49er
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If you are trying to run a hd 7 off of one of the smaller lithium batteries you are still going to eat them up as you put it. They eat up a marine battery if it hooked to a alternator of some type
Guys here running the live scopes are using power boxes with multiple batteries inside.
"Gold is money, everything else is just credit" JP Morgan
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