Lcx-27

I think my antenna is bad, Does anyone have a LGC-3000 I can try to see if it is the antenna. Or is there another way to see why it wont pick up any satelites?

make sure that you have a fully charged battery.Some times that will make it act up

Need more info. Did it just start doing this or is this a
new install?

It just started doing this. The unit is 3 years old. If I unplug the antenna then the unit tells my the antenna is not responding. I was running the unit for 6 hours today and the G.P.S. never worked today. I see a new antenna is not the cheapest so I would like to make sure that is what it is before I buy a new one. Thanks

Sounds like a bad battery issue.

You need clean power to run the GPS properly. How old are your batteries?

My buddy had a bad cell in one of his electronics batteries for a summer and he kept complaining to lowrance that his unit was not working. Took it in, everything. Turns out, once that I looked at his electronics with an AMP meter, that his battery was bad. Replaced and everything has been fine since.

Dog.

The battery is 1 year old, all the other stuff is on the same battery and that all works

Go through all you connections, put some dielectric grease or something similar on them, make sure your puck is getting power. If you have good enough power to power up your unit you should have enough power to run the 3000. You should also have a switch on the GPS Module but thats beside the point. I have a new LGC-3000 to try but I live in Lonsdale about 40 mins from you.

The GPS antenna is powered seperately. Do you know if is wired directly to a battery or through a master power switch?
I always wire my electronics directly to the battery with the exception of the GPS puck. The puck should go through a master power switch so it’s not on all the time. I’ve heard of more puck failures from this than anything else.

Your LCX-27C has a read-out that will tell you if you are receiving 12 volts at the unit. Even though the GPS puck has a separate power cord they should both be getting the full 12 if the unit shows that the battery is okay, unless the wires have a connection issue only at the puck wires. So check the wires to the puck (it is the second set coming off the units power cable) and check the battery’s voltage. If that all checks out then do what you are asking which is to try another GPS puck to see if it works. If it does you know your puck has gone bad.

Does anyone in the Rosemount area have a Lowrance with an LGC-3000 and could give Jeff a hand? All you’d have to do is try your puck on Jeff’s Lowrance to see if it works.

Jeff,
If you still need the help with hooking up a 3000 ant. let me know, I’m in Apple Valley.
send a PM.
Jack

I’m in S mpls and have two 27C’s on my boat, your welcome to stop by and try your unit on my boat.

Al