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Location: Kodiak, AK | ....and that brings me to my second point. These things are not the flashers we saw on boats 20 years ago. These are little desktop computers and need to be seen as such. There will be upgrades, adjustments and quirks in them.
To the original poster, if you're a basic usage guy like me, I'd consider it. I use mine for depth, location and seeing weeds. (LSC really doesn't have much in the way of structure, so I'm not even looking for bottom contour, just if I'm over weeds or not!) A buddy of mine is a semi-pro bass guy who fishes tx's every weekend, knows the big name pros and is a Lowrance guy. He's the kind of guy who knows every single tiny function on the unit and does use them as such. Well he's on my boat one day and starts messing with my console unit and showing me all the stuff you can do and see and so forth. I just kinda looked at him with a dumb look on my face and I was like, "John, man, as long as I know it's 10' with weeds and where I'm at, I'm fishing." The point is he uses his units to the max extent and I use mine for the most basic of functions. Units from 5-10 years ago would serve me.
So if you're a basic kind of guy, I'd not sweat the "outdated" technology of them LCX units. It's still more than we used to use, and still more than the guys I see at the boat ramp using hand-held units.
I will say though, that I'm prepared for the "end" and I know that one may fail any day and I don't even plan to mess with it. I'll buy a new one and move on and deal with fixing it later. I can't be without a unit for two months while Lowrance answers emails, repairs and returns my broken unit, etc. I see any unit as a life-limited component and as something I'll probably be swapping or replacing in a few years. So if you buy used, be ready for how you're going to deal with them messing up on you...are you going to repair and reinstall, or are you going to replace? Hate to see you spend $1700 on a used unit and you're not ready for the quirks and hiccups. If you're ready for them...then it could be a helluva deal.
I'm still kinda waiting to see about the HDS units. I'm interested in the SI, but with that still be an "upgrade" and not even part of the unit from the store...I'm kinda waiting to see what happens and let these things settle out a bit before I pull the trigger. And hell, I may still switch to Humminbird when the time comes. I like Lowrance but I don't have "Lowrance" tattooed on my butt.
Edited by esoxfly 9/8/2009 10:16 AM
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