01-10-2020, 06:53 PM
[fishon]We have a Marcum Showdown - about 4 years old now. Not a 5.6 it's an older model, but looks just like the 5.6.
It seemed like it worked well the first year, but it is not user friendly. I have replaced the battery. I have replaced the fuse.
The design is poor - so you have to pull out the entire finder out of the bag just to find the cord to recharge it. The case is just a bag so that sits just on the ice. After a couple of hours of the battery sitting directly on ice it loses energy. Doesn't matter new or old... cold sucks energy out of batteries. So it needs to be up off of the ice to get all day use. And you have to have a good full charge to get it to work.
The features and buttons aren't user friendly - I am always pushing them trying to find where I am at on the ice.
I do not like it. I do not like it one bit. I do not like it not at all.
Good price because the guy wants a better one.
Lip Rippin Rino has I real nice one easy to use. That's the one all the kids like using. [fishon]
Rob
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It seemed like it worked well the first year, but it is not user friendly. I have replaced the battery. I have replaced the fuse.
The design is poor - so you have to pull out the entire finder out of the bag just to find the cord to recharge it. The case is just a bag so that sits just on the ice. After a couple of hours of the battery sitting directly on ice it loses energy. Doesn't matter new or old... cold sucks energy out of batteries. So it needs to be up off of the ice to get all day use. And you have to have a good full charge to get it to work.
The features and buttons aren't user friendly - I am always pushing them trying to find where I am at on the ice.
I do not like it. I do not like it one bit. I do not like it not at all.
Good price because the guy wants a better one.
Lip Rippin Rino has I real nice one easy to use. That's the one all the kids like using. [fishon]
Rob
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