show us your remote winch solenoid location

[Drewboyaus]

Remember Westy, you'll get decent voltage drop between solenoid and winch if you're mounting it under the hood and from experience there are time when you need to wring every last bit of performance from that winch. You will need to upgrade the cables if you do this.
Seriously, mount it on the bar mate. I considered doing the whole under bonnet thing and just couldn't be arsed. I don't think there is a huge advantage in doing it that way.
But that's just my opinion

Sent from my iPhone using Forum Runner

[MudRunnerTD]

What Solenoid are you running Kallen? If it is a Solid State then strip it out of the control box and mount it wherever you like. I had mine mounted to the inner guard under the Washer bottle and it worked fine there. They are sealed and fully water proof so dont worry about it getting wet or dirty.

Voltage Drop is a problem so as close as possible. My Solenoid for the GU is mounted behind the bar as already stated above and i have mounted the hand controller plug sticking out he grill. i have an isolation switch under the bonnet which cuts power to the switching side of the solenoid via a relay.

If your trying to mount a Warn control box with the 4 solenoids then bin it. buy a Solid State and be done with it.

[jff45]

There should be no increased voltage drop caused simply by having the solenoid closer to the battery. If the cable lengths are the same, the current will be identical regardless of where the solenoid is placed in the circuit.

[megatexture]

Mines mounted inside the bullbar and is a warn style with 4 solenoid and has been under water countless times with no issue to date(over 5 yrs).... Touch wood lol

[MudRunnerTD]

Mines mounted inside the bullbar and is a warn style with 4 solenoid and has been under water countless times with no issue to date(over 5 yrs).... Touch wood lol

Touch Wood. They are a Dog of a thing for Sh1tting themselves just when you need them most.

[megatexture]

Shut it lol your getting me paranoid lol

[Pokey]

Mine was mounted to the winch until recently I went to use it and found it was full of gunk and stuffed so relocated the new one to the engine bay. 1418026348094.jpg

[04OFF]

There should be no increased voltage drop caused simply by having the solenoid closer to the battery. If the cable lengths are the same, the current will be identical regardless of where the solenoid is placed in the circuit.

Exactly my thoughts.


Mine is in the exact same spot as Pokey has his ^, the other good thing about remote mounting the solenoid, is that you remove any cables with permanent 12V power going right to the very front of your car, in a accident situation, I didn't like the idea of a "unfused" heavy cable connected directly to the battery surrounded by metal.

[04OFF]

Shut it lol your getting me paranoid lol

Don't worry Troy, you've actually got to "go" 4wdriving to get stuck and need a winch (bwahahahah !)

[lhurley]

Don't worry Troy, you've actually got to "go" 4wdriving to get stuck and need a winch (bwahahahah !)

Not true. Ive seen people stuck in all sorts of ridiculous situations. Mostly gutters