Where did you mount your winch controlled relay box?

Try this.

Attachment 115757


I don't think the second diagram of yours is correct.

Wire colour isnt that important, however, centre terminal (light duty) should be earth.
The warn diagram doesn't suggest 2 control boxes, rather an in cab isolation (via earth)switch for the solenoid.

Hi, thanks for that.
It is similar to what I have, but what is puzzling me is how it switches.

e.g. I know by the remote socket picks up 12V+ from the Red Connector and powers either of 2 solenoids back down either the blue or yellow wires to the black earth.

I know that the heavy duty current is then directed from the Red Connector to Blue F2 on the motor, or Yellow F1 on the motor. I did that by bench testing.

What has me foxed is how/what/why does the White Connector (A on the motor) connect to.
So far I can't measure any connection to any of the other 3 heavy duty connectors.

Perhaps I need to connect 12V to the Red Connector which may trigger something else that I have missed by just putting 12V across the light terminals.

Cheers

Think of A as "armature/active" and F1 as "Field1" and F2 as "Field 2"
When you press the "winch in" button you connect 12v to A and F1 = rotation direction
Likewise when you presss "winch out" you connect 12v to A and F2 = opposite rotation diection

Hi,
Thanks, I'll do some more testing.

At the moment I am not getting anything connecting to A.

There must be a trigger from the Red Connection that I haven't connected at all as yet.

Cheers

Auststar
The white wire goes from solenoid to armature
To power motor in CW direction
-ve to case
+ve to one field winding
Solenoid links other field & armature

To run motor CCW
Reverse the polarity of field winding and armature linked to other field

The magic of the solenoid is that it links the white wire between armature and appropriate field
Only when field windings is powered appropriately

So test of solenoid white should be zero resistance with say F2 when F1 is +ve

S

Do a you tube search on testing 12v winch motor
Some buggalugs will show how motor is powered up
Might make sense of what the solenoid is doing

S