Lacrosse BC-9009 versus BC-900: What differences, if any?

[tandem]

I know what you mean about detecting the company line on problems from tech reps. I really don't get La Crosse's customer service attitude when it comes to these sorts of issues. I've never bought one of their products; reports from you and others (plus the failure nature itself) have ensured I never will.

 

[Mr Happy]

I know what you mean about detecting the company line on problems from tech reps. I really don't get La Crosse's customer service attitude when it comes to these sorts of issues. I've never bought one of their products; reports from you and others (plus the failure nature itself) have ensured I never will.

I think somehow the BC-900 is the ugly child in their product line-up. I recently bought a La Crosse radio controlled clock and the design and manufacturing quality seems fine enough. Likewise, their weather products always look fine to me. I guess La Crosse is not really in the battery business...

 

[MarioJP]

I agreed. That's bad customer service on their part. She should be fired.

 

[Colorblinded]

I've got one of those LaCrosse weather stations and while it seems cheaper than the BC-900 I've had for at least a couple years I am not worried about it bursting in to flames like the BC-900 supposedly might! I still use my BC-900 (firmware 33) but I do most of my charging on my Maha C801D that I got maybe 6 months ago. Just got a Maha C9000 that was on sale as well.

I like the BC-900 though and I've never been terribly concerned using it and will certainly continue to do so but only when I need certain features it offers or need to charge more at once. If I am traveling I'm more likely to drag the BC-900 along if I need a quick and flexible charger since it's smaller than the C9000 or C801D.

 

[Beacon of Light]

Here are a few pics displaying the deformed and now humped chassis body. You can see the third slot where the battery leaked and underneath the 2nd and 3rd slot is the bulge.

 

[Beacon of Light]

Any thoughts on the bulge and if this is typical of the other meltdowns in the past? It is odd as this has the replacement power adapter I got way back when during the initial faulty adapters (the unit wouldn't power on consistently) when they were just faulty not even related to this safety hazard of causing meltdowns.

 

[Mikl1984]

Difference became more visible with new PCB and FW37 from 2010 La-Crosse-changed-design-BC-9009

 

[jalyst]

So as I understand it from reading this thread,

The 9009 has now completely supplanted the 900, & any revisions (since fw 34) to fw/pcb are done only to it?
And the only other difference between it & the 900, is that they're different colours?

How does the BC-1000 differ to both of them?

 

[jalyst]

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[jalyst]

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[jalyst]

So as I understand it from reading this thread,

The 9009 has now completely supplanted the 900, & any revisions (since fw 34) to fw/pcb are done only to it?
And the only other difference between it & the 900, is that they're different colours?

How does the BC-1000 differ to both of them?

I guess no one knows...

 

[bleagh]

Well several sites are now listing the BC-1000 as a special order item (they don't have any in stock).

amazon.com has it listed as 'in stock' but they want $89.95...