I wanted some input from those who have a winch for their trailer. I plan on hardmounting the winch to the trailer tongue mounted inside a tongue box. My question is how do you get power to it. I figured I would adapt a trailer plug to it and use my trailer brake power wire and the ground from the factory plug. Will this give enough power or not? Will this blow my fuses? Is there another way to wire it up? Any input would be great here. Thanks. For now It will be removable since I need to geta new/move the factory jack out of the way before installing the box. Pics would be great to see. Oh by the way it is a tag-along trailer.
I have a winch on my trailer, a Warn 4.0 atv winch. Not knowing how large of a winch it is and the power draw, my guess is that the power and ground from the 7 pin connector won't be large enough. I use a seperate car battery to power mine, pull in off and recharge after every few uses. I have though of installing one of the Warn quick connect extensions so that I can get rid of the battery but haven't got around to it yet.
In my mind, the best way is either a separate battery, or maybe running heavy-guage battery cable to a quick disconnect of some sort. A friend of mine has a winch mounted to his trailer and he just uses a marine battery to power it. When he needs it, he just spins a couple wing nuts, and hes powered up. The downside is, he hasnt made a place to mount it yet, so when he needs the winch, hes got to remember to toss a battery in the back of the truck before he leaves home. If it were me Id go for some kind of quick disconnect wired into the trucks battery, but thats just my opinion.
Separate battery on the trailer, hooked up to be able to be charged by the truck when towing. Another option is to run heavy gauge power wires from your truck battery to the back of your truck with a quick disconnect plug, then a short pigtail to the winch with another quick disconnect. John
I installed my superwinch 5000s like 502 jimmy said. I installed the the strongest deep cell marine battery with a high reserve that powers the winch and 2 spotlights for those late night races when you just gotta put in those monster nitrous pills. It's recharged from the 7 pin, but i also installed a battery maintaner/ trickle charger for when the trailer sits for long periods and over winter.waytogo
http://www.awdirect.com/awdirect/ca...id=18424&secid=66&linkon=subsection&linkid=88 http://www.awdirect.com/awdirect/ca...mid=5202&secid=66&linkon=subsection&linkid=88 this is what i use. go to local welding shop and ask for 1 length of 2/0 cable or 1/0 cable . also get a few crip on lug ends to add to wires for batt and winch and ground ends. the welding cable is much more flexable and last longer with real fine wire strands. go from battery with cable down frame and then to back bumper. add plug and ground 1 wire to frame rail other to batt wire you ran. then other wires to ground on winch and batt term on winch. i use the dust boots to keep the gunk out when not in use. just slip the wire loop over the cable before you clip it in to housing and it will hold it to the plug wile not in service so you dont loose it. the draw on that little 7 pin plug if hooked to winch would melt the wire in a few seconds for the amps going threw it. your winch needs a lot more than that. i dont run a batt on the trailer. it sits for times and up hear would frezze up and trash its self. so i run the quick plug for this reason.
Sweet 20 Thanks for the info and links man. I might p>m> you when I got to hook this up if that is o.K.? Thanks
i fixed your mistake and thats fine by me. best to find me on ck5.com most of the time same screen name but i will keep a eye out for ya on hear.
winch problem solved i have a 12,000 lb. warn winch on my gooseneck i power it straight off my trucks battery. i bought heavy 6 gauge muilt strand wire with heavy duty quick disconnects i haven't had any problems deep cell batteries always need charged and if you are pullin hard the batteries lose power quickly
Well I added a Winch to my Trailer it is a Ramsey TR5000, once you get one you will be surprised how often you use it I have a battery in the box next to my winch and once every 2 months I throw a trickle charge on it over night.. works great and have not had the battery fail yet
That's the easiest way to set it up. Actually i run a winch and a fuel tank off my battery. The battery charges while it's hooked to my truck.
charger Hey guys, I got a small (less than 3" sqr) trickle charger that I wired into my running lights to keep the break-a-way battery charged. Now I know that this is a tiny battery, but in theory it should charge a larger battery, just take a little longer waytogo . I really never think about it much cuz it works fairly well Scott
If i'm not mistaken, all the later model trucks have a built-in trickle charger system. I have an '05 chevy and an '06 dodge that i tow with. Whenever i started towing my 5th wheels and my flatbed trailer with the winch on, all they did was added fuse to it. When it came up, i thought that it something complicated like adding a trickle charger to the trucks. The easiest way to find out is call an RV accessory shop like Camping World, or a shop that specializes in trailers and towing. That's all it took for me. The fuses were put in and all i had to do was connect my trailer to my truck like i had always been doing before.
I have found that a WARN or similar kind on a cradle works best for me. Weld a reciever hitch on the trailer and then plug into the wireing that you will need into the truck. WARN sells these kits and then you can use your winch on other vehicles as well. I am into fourwheeling so I have a hitch on the front and rear of both of my rigs. Would not trade it for the world.
That is what I plan on using when I get mine. I want to route the QD plugs at the front and rear. AW Direct has Jumper Cable sets that fit into the QD plugs. That way you can jump start w/o lifting the hood. Plus w/the option to jump from the rear of the vehicle if the situation dictates that you can not go nose to nose.
I have a Mile Marker 8500 lb winch on my equipment trailer that has always had a winch of somesort in it, but until I got it, the only thing thing wired on the trailer was a small boat winch. When I rewired the trailer, I just mounted a deep cycle auto battery as the breakaway power source which gets recharged by way of the 7-pin connector. I haven't run the battery dead yet even while winching everything from rolling junk cars to dragging 6000lb feed bins up onto the deck. I've pulled hard enough that I broke two the winch mount twice, but the battery has never gone dead.
