02-11-2016, 11:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2016, 11:35 PM by broncosbybart.)
Dude, I'm not no one. Ok, maybe I am. Thanks for the heads up but the head unit is already unwrapped and installation has begun on it. I'm getting sick of wiring so I changed it up a bit and worked on the winch.
The goal I was after is having switches on the dash to control the winch in addition to being able to use a hand held winch controller. Upon removal of the fancy shroud work, I was greeted with a sealed box with a few wires going into and out of it. Turns out Warn calls this a contactor, just a fancy name for an expensive non-serviceable solenoid. There was no way to tap into the box for a remote switch panel. A little digging turned up an 'open box' winch remote on Amazon which I bought for the proprietary D shaped plug and wire loom. Ridiculous.
The end result is that I was able to use my remote switches but have to plug the panel into the winch plug, and would need to unplug that in order to plug in the hand held remote. Not ideal but it was the only way to do it with this winch.
Snapped a few pics of the engine bay, too. It is beginning to fill up with stuff. PS/hydroboost is in and plumbed. Dual batteries are in and today I got the battery isolator installed. Settled on the solenoid type as it was fairly inexpensive and easy to diagnose, should trouble ever arise. The battery on the driver's side is the main battery that everything is hooked to. The aux battery on the passenger side is just for the winch and can be switched on if the main battery should die.
Kindly disregard the 4x4 prop rod holding the hood up.
The goal I was after is having switches on the dash to control the winch in addition to being able to use a hand held winch controller. Upon removal of the fancy shroud work, I was greeted with a sealed box with a few wires going into and out of it. Turns out Warn calls this a contactor, just a fancy name for an expensive non-serviceable solenoid. There was no way to tap into the box for a remote switch panel. A little digging turned up an 'open box' winch remote on Amazon which I bought for the proprietary D shaped plug and wire loom. Ridiculous.
The end result is that I was able to use my remote switches but have to plug the panel into the winch plug, and would need to unplug that in order to plug in the hand held remote. Not ideal but it was the only way to do it with this winch.
Snapped a few pics of the engine bay, too. It is beginning to fill up with stuff. PS/hydroboost is in and plumbed. Dual batteries are in and today I got the battery isolator installed. Settled on the solenoid type as it was fairly inexpensive and easy to diagnose, should trouble ever arise. The battery on the driver's side is the main battery that everything is hooked to. The aux battery on the passenger side is just for the winch and can be switched on if the main battery should die.
Kindly disregard the 4x4 prop rod holding the hood up.