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Winch isolator switch

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Range Rover Blues:
It also pays to keep the winch wires as short as possible, even when thay are that thick there is still some power lost in long cables.

As for the drum going the wrong way, somewhere someone has crossed 2 of the wires over, either in the solenoid pack or the remote.  It's easily done and rectified.

Wanderer:
TBH All leads should be as short as possible as mentioned by Andy. If you run into the cab to an isolator switch then you'll be getting volt drop at the winch as pulls the current. This will make the winch under perform. As well as the being possible chaffing problems when going through the bulkhead and there would more than likely not be an inline fuse.

Ed

Wanderer:
BTW The easiest way of correcting the switching would be in the connector on the controller as it goes into the solenoids. If it's like the Goodwinch one then you just need to open it up and swap the connectors in the plug.

Ed

Disco_Stu:
Cheers guys, some thinking/shopping/learning/fettling to do then :)

Stu.

extreme90:
thats a cheap boat isolator that's around 150 amps constant load IIRC
would have to look in the book tomorrow at work for you to double check

can i make a suggestion whilst your shopping, bin the std solenoids before even using them
there rubbish
fit a contactor and never worry again  ;)
it took me over a year to kill mine, and i only did that cos i was dragging dead weight 90 through a bog over my bonnet
my 8274 was struggling on double line  :P
the contactor welded together as i wouldnt give up  8-[
dan

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