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Just found out why my winch kept dying on the Pismo Beach trip
Turns out the factory wiring was 12 gauge but the winch pulls 250 amps, and a buddy with a clamp meter showed me the voltage drop before we even got to the dunes, has anyone else chased a gremlin like that?
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garcia.charles17d ago
12 gauge on a 250 amp winch is crazy, that's like trying to drink a milkshake through a coffee straw. But I gotta say the wire size probably wasn't your only gremlin, a winch that size needs a solid ground and good connections too, and a lot of guys upgrade the cable and still cook em because the terminals are loose or corroded. What voltage were you actually seeing at the winch under load, if your buddy had the clamp meter did he get that number? Cause if it was dropping to like 9 or 10 volts that tells you more than just the gauge.
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