Winch electric cable

Hiya, I have a 90 2.5na Military and I am fitting a winch and matching bumper.

I can have the electric cables made to order but does anybody know how much length I need from the bumper to the battery box! Due to work I have not had chance to measure myself and the Landy is currently in storage until the weekend.

If anybody knows the length of cable I will need that will be a massive help.

Thanks

I assume your battery is in the standard place? where is the winch solenoid pack? mine is under the wing so my cables were a diff length. Assuming your pack is on the winch and you are running it dirrectly up the chassis rail, I would shoot for 3.5m. Someone who has done it more recently may be able to offer more accurate lengths.

Go for 35mm square cable and run the negative back to the battery also.

G

I have done the fit in the last week to my ex MOD 90. It takes a 3m cable to go from the live to the bumper and 3.5m from earth. I used 35mm2 cable of the ultra flexible type and tye wrapped along the near side chassis and behind the cross member on the front.

I fitted the cutoff switch on the passenger seat box bulk head and ran a 40cm cable from here to he battery. The cables will enter the battery box with the existing live and negative cables. Whatever you do, don't be tempted to earth via the chassis. It took me ages to fix the damage!

I put my solenoid pack inside the wing on the near side and wired in the wander lead and a remote control unit. This makes the bumper fit look really neat. I used a WS4x4 classic bumper which really suits the military look and they supplied a bracket that holds the number plate just above the fair lead. I fitted a Dyameena rope and polished aluminium fairlead to save weight and for safety.

I am very pleased with the finished look. Set off nicely by my black/silver plates.

Many thanks for your help, that's perfect information.

Just out of interest why should you not use the chassis as an earth, I plan to run both cables neg and plus to the battery anyhow (with a battery cut off on the plus). I didn't realise it could cause damage I just thought that it was always good practice to run both back to the battery glad you told me that an earth to chassis could cause damage.

Regards

ians2 said:

Many thanks for your help, that's perfect information.

Just out of interest why should you not use the chassis as an earth, I plan to run both cables neg and plus to the battery anyhow (with a battery cut off on the plus). I didn't realise it could cause damage I just thought that it was always good practice to run both back to the battery glad you told me that an earth to chassis could cause damage.

Regards

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I wondered the same thing, so I wired the earth to the chassis on the front. Had a perfect earth when I continuity checked. Powered the winch circuit up and set light to the accelerator cable and blew a load of relays and fuses. I have no idea where the problem is but I suspect its something to do with the fact the vehicle earth is on the gearbox not the chassis.

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I wondered the same thing, so I wired the earth to the chassis on the front. Had a perfect earth when I continuity checked. Powered the winch circuit up and set light to the accelerator cable and blew a load of relays and fuses. I have no idea where the problem is but I suspect its something to do with the fact the vehicle earth is on the gearbox not the chassis.

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Sounds like you had a bad earth elsewhere.

I have my jumpleads and have had my winch, wired up using the chassis as an earth and have had no problems.

If the earth point isn't clean it will dramatically reduce power though.