Electrical prob's with Warn 10,000 winch
Submitted: Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 20:40
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Member - Tim - Stratford (VIC)
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.
Reply By: Robin - Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 21:16
Sunday, Feb 04, 2007 at 21:16
Hi Tim
Don't particularly know that winch , but I agree its usually contact or connection problems.
How many soleniods do you have 4 or 5 ? (4 is enough)
The catch with these issue's is that there are many contacts to blame and its hard to narrow the fault location down.
A problem that can occur is that a bad contact on a battery feed cable can be enough to allow a soleniod to operate but insufficent for the winch , so the solendiod operates, it switches the winch, and the heavy winch current in turn then cuts out the soleniod and around you go in circle.
A way to isolate this problem is to seperately wire the soleniod pack back to the battery. A connection problem in the winch is now easier to isolate by use of a voltmeter.
Robin Miller
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