Just curious how much of a pain in the ass it all is.
I've seen Jeep guys do two separate switches. One for power and then an in/out switch for running the winch. Just trying to get thoughts on it.
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Not too much trouble, relatively speaking. Finding where to put the switches is probably the hardest part. Not a lot of flat real estate in the dash.
Some things I’d incorporate if I was doing in-cab switches...
Use a master switch (like the “Jeep guys”) so the winch can’t be accidentally activated.
Put the winch in/out switch somewhere you can comfortably rest your hand/arm for a long time, our winch isn’t exactly fast.
Put a connector in your wires going down to the winch in the vicinity of the battery so you can disconnect there along with unhooking the winch cables to the battery to facilitate dropping the winch for service.
You’ll have to ground the solenoids. They’re on a floating ground through the Warn remote, so a different switching system won’t work unless you ground them.
While you’re working on the winch, you have easy access to bypass the thermal switch. These go bad pretty commonly and leave you able to spool out, but not in. If you do bypass it, remember to give it some cool down time when winching since now you don’t have a “safety net” to stop you from overheating it. You can also take out the low voltage interrupt, but these are much less prone to issues and I left mine alone.
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