Winch electrical issue

Hi,

My winch was working perfectly fine, I removed it to have the front bumper modified and painted, put the winch back together and there is now a problem with it.

The problem is inside the little control box. When I press "out" on my remote, the control box will click a couple of times. If i press "in" on the remote, it will click once. It doesn't get further than that, the winch itself doesn't receive any power.

I've taken the control box apart, and i haven't changed anything - I've just cleaned up the connections.

Here is a video of the clicking.



Pictures of the wiring. The thin black cable going off of the picture earths to the same place as the main earth cable.









Is the wiring wrong? Or is the solenoid knackered and I need a new one?

Thanks,
Foz.

Try doing it with a fully charged battery .... or with it wired into the vehicle, with the engine running and producing charge ...

Sounds like a bad earth maybe, is it earthed to the bumper on straight back to the battery? If to the bumper try a jump lead back to the battery off the ground,

Use a ultimate meter to check if it's switching over and your getting power to the winch, if you don't have power at the try tapping the solinoide, if it works the it's the solinoide and if you have power to the winch it's the motor or a ground,

Thanks for the replies.

When it was on the vehicle I tried earthing it from the battery and it didn't make a difference, i still got the same clicking.

I have also tested with a multi meter, and no power it getting to the winch - I've also tried tapping the solenoid (casing) with a hammer and it didn't help.

I haven't tried it with with the vehicle running - car is currently in the garage having the timing belt done so can't try until the weekend.

Any other thoughts?

I'd test the motor with a 12v battery .. earth on motor to negative on battery, connect one field winding to the single motor post, then connect positive to the other field winding. If it works, swap the connection to the other field winding instead and try the other way. This will make certain that the motor is working and not simply stalled or broke, tripping the solenoid out..

Paul D said:

I'd test the motor with a 12v battery .. earth on motor to negative on battery, connect one field winding to the single motor post, then connect positive to the other field winding. If it works, swap the connection to the other field winding instead and try the other way. This will make certain that the motor is working and not simply stalled or broke, tripping the solenoid out..

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What he says

Winch had a bad earth, all fixed.

Thanks for your help!