LX-9 Charger Flashing Red LED

Anyone know what is indicated by a flashing red LED on the charger for a Marcum LX-9?

Page 25 of the LX9 learner handbook doesn’t say anything about that

I would guess it’s a circuit fault indicator. You’ll need to skip to page 26 of the manual or bust out a multimeter.

Is this the same charger as the Lx7?

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Anyone know what is indicated by a flashing red LED on the charger for a Marcum LX-9?

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I’ve never heard of this or witnessed it in person. Honestly I don’t know. Flashing red lights of any kind rarely seem to indicate anything good or positive is taking place but as to your specific situation… I got nuttin. Sorry.

Let us know what you find out.

If I had to guess it would mean a charge is not taking place and or your battery is shot. I know with dewalt battery chargers the really quick blinking of the red light means replace pack.

That’s what mine did too…. battery is shot. Unit will not power up, right ?

My experience is that my lx7 charger fried when hooked up reverse polarity. Since then I’ve converted all my electronics to a Battery Tender. My guess is that the charger is sensing a defective battery. The best added insurance one can have essecially before a trip is a multi-meter…unlike a bad woman, they’re cheap and they don’t lie. As a previous post said, most chargers flash red when a battery in no longer any good and will not take a charge.

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My experience is that my lx7 charger fried when hooked up reverse polarity. Since then I’ve converted all my electronics to a Battery Tender. My guess is that the charger is sensing a defective battery. The best added insurance one can have essecially before a trip is a multi-meter…unlike a bad woman, they’re cheap and they don’t lie. As a previous post said, most chargers flash red when a battery in no longer any good and will not take a charge.

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CRC–I’ve thought of changing all my fishing electronics over to Jr. Tenders as well. Did you pick up the multi-bank charger or are running individual unit for each unit? How are the Tenders working out for you?

1 thing to remember is the the Tenders will take a long time to recharge a really low battery….they are a maintainer – not a charger…
As CRC said, a multi-meter is cheap insurance and easy to use..

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My experience is that my lx7 charger fried when hooked up reverse polarity.

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Just curious…How did you reverse the polarity on your 7?
On my lx6 it has a prewired plug that you cannot reverse….

A battery tender puts out usually two amps. Your marcum chargers is same or an amp so it will do the same. It will only tend larger batteries but a 7 -9 amp hr is smalll

My Jr model puts out 0.75A

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1 thing to remember is the the Tenders will take a long time to recharge a really low battery….they are a maintainer – not a charger…
As CRC said, a multi-meter is cheap insurance and easy to use..

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Jr is .75a and will bulk charge the first 75%, then trickle the last 25% and maintain a full battery. Mine charges very quick. I fish for 5-6 hours and my battery is charged in 2.

Well….Having never needed a tender for my flashers- I’ll let the experts comment on this subject…

I have 2 flashers and a camera and I just keep them up using a voltmeter and the stock chargers…no troubles…I’m still using the factory battery on my Lx1 that is 6 years old…the camera is older…..and even after a full day they do not drop to a half charge.

No sense in fixing what isnt broken.

The tender is for us lazy people who just want to plug it in and forget about it until the next trip.

I have seen that the new lx 9( late 2013 model at least) have a fuse on the hot wire that connects to the unit from the battery…

Be sure the battery has warmed up from your trip. A cold battery will cause the flashing “NO CHARGE POSSIBLE” light. Try it again after the battery reaches room temperature. My drill batteries do the flashing red whenever they’re cold.

No way mine was reversed, like said, there is only 1 way to plug in the charger. I put a different battery in from FF and walla !!! I emailed Marcum about 20 minutes ago about my issues with the battery… they just responded… apologized that I was having issues and a new one is on the way !!! Customer service

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My experience is that my lx7 charger fried when hooked up reverse polarity.

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Just curious…How did you reverse the polarity on your 7?
On my lx6 it has a prewired plug that you cannot reverse….

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OK, here’s the story. My battery tender Jr. Was out on my motorcycle and i wanted to charge both my marcum lx7 and my humminbird 385 ice. I hooked up the marcum charger to the humminbird reverse polarity and the marcum charger fried. Just as a note of caution always check polarity when charging different units, although my battery tender Jr. Has reverse polarity protection. Another plus realized when switching all my electronics to the battery tender. My battery tender puts out 900 milliamps. It charges, and maintains and even on older vented lead acid batteries on some of my motorcycles it won’t overcharge and boil off the electrolyte.

This is a recently upgraded to LX9 from LX7 that came with new battery and charger from Marcum. It came with the same plug in arrangement mentioned by others above so polarity should not be an issue. The unit was was warm when I plugged the charger in to make sure it is topped off for later this week. I’ll try another battery and see what happens there and let you all know.

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This is a recently upgraded to LX9 from LX7 that came with new battery and charger from Marcum. It came with the same plug in arrangement mentioned by others above so polarity should not be an issue. The unit was was warm when I plugged the charger in to make sure it is topped off for later this week. I’ll try another battery and see what happens there and let you all know.

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I just sent my 7 in for the 9 upgrade and as per instructions I sent it without the battery. Did you do the same, and did you try your old battery?

I unhooked the charger and checked its no load output at ~14 volts. Pulled the battery out and found it at 3.3 volts. Put it on a Battery Doc and it too flashed at me. Battery is shot. I put another battery that was pretty run down on the system and the unit operated fine with the charger putting out 14 volts as it is working to recharge that battery.

I did take the LX-7 to Marcum without the battery and it came back from the upgrade with the one that has failed.

I guess its time to call Marcum.