Electrical prob's with Warn 10,000 winch

Evening all,

Has anyone had experience with electrical problems with a Warn 10,000 (or any other Warn for that matter). I have used the winch quite a few times but been careful not to overheat it etc. Just snigging firewood and the ocassional other traveller/mates.

Before our Corryong trip my winch failed to wind in. There was a lot of solenoid 'clicking' but the motor wouldn't fuction. I took it to an ARB dealer who were about to remove the whole winch/box etc. When the mechanic raced my truck to his auto-elec mate. He came back 5 minutes later with the diagnosis that a solenoid was stuffed. We had already checked these with a test light and they appeared fine.

It is my understanding (read: educated guess) that enough power was getting through to activate the test light but not a good enough connection to allow sufficient amps through - hence no power to motor.

Anyway, we changed the solenoid and off we went on the trip - winch worked fine.

On our trip I winched many trees off road - mate didn't take sufficient chainsaw fuel :-<

Once home I decided to test the winch and clean cable etc - Now have the same clicking solenoids although the motor still powers in intermittantly - seems it is on its way out again.

Does anyone have a better idea if the solenoids have/are dying or is there an underlying problem???

I have got a couple of spare relays from ebay (not Warn) to get me out of trouble in the bush - but think I should replace the solenoids with original equipment when available. Does anyone know of solenoid pack problems???

Winch was purchased new in Dec '04 - out of warranty.

Thanks in advance,

Tim - Stratford.