Michael Hall

Well said When I got my Lowrance LCX37C for a shed load of money in about 2008 and read the manual I thought I knew right then I should have taken notice of my mother who advised me to get the best education possible. It appeared to me that even professors of electronics would have commited suicide when the tried to wade through the sonar section which I found to be crap re the clarity of fish. After switching on the unit & finding the antenna did not work due to there was no 12 volts supply from the brand new unit to the antenna and that the unit had to be swapped immediately for a new unit I started to wonder what had I bought? My pal in Crete had the same unit only smaller bought a year before mine worked fine and a good job too because he navigated always in the dark! As opposed to the map page being switched on twice all the time I've had it seems absolutely pathetic. I will endeavor to make sure the unit I replace this one with has more solid recommendations for reliability. I would be very interested to know how many Lowrance buyers have had brand new units not working right out of the box as opposed to their advert fish with this GPS right out of the box?

Thank you for letting me ask a question here. I have a Lowrance LCX37C which is old now but I am appalled that the unit was replaced as soon as I turned it on brand new due to the unit not sending 12 volts to the GPS antenna. It could now have the same fault but this map section has been turned on twice since I bought it as said brand new. I have not put a meter on the NMEA 2000.......2 pos and 3 neg terminals that connect the LGC 3000 receiver yet because of no data which was 153 miles away at home and not in the caravan at the side of my boat! I see many others have had problems with these GPS units and feel we who bought them were very much guinea pigs at the time. I wonder if I find there is no 12 v supply to the antenna could this be overcome by a separate 12 volt supply to the NMEA 2000 instead of the antenna getting its faulty supply from the LCX 37 unit. The sonar has functioned as it should but I have always thought the screen shot has much to be desired in terms of fish clarity at £1600. Or as we brits say an 'arm and a leg'! Obsolete a year after purchase to boot!