[High Desert]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

What kind of winch?
What is the current draw?
The stock alternator in a 2F puts out 45 Amps, a stock SBC alt puts out around 100Amps.
As an example the 12V Warn XD9000 draws 460Amps at max load (9000#)
330Amps at a more realistic 6000# load.
The battery is where it's at.

Forget the hand throttle and get a good starting battery with the most cold cranking amps you can find. Stay away from deep cycle batteries for winching they are designed for slow deep discharge.

It's a 8274...My battery is fine. I've read threads and instructions where folks keep the alternator turning enough to put a charge back on while winching...

I don't plan on loading up the winch and running it for any long time spans...not gonna be any body's "winch bitch"..my rigs electrics are stock. Every time I've run the winch up to now I've just shut it down and run off the battery. If a 2min run time over a 10 min time span is gonna kill my battery then so be it. but, if I do get in a situation where I've got to use if for extended time (meaning off and on power for what ever reason, long enough to drain the battery and not re-start the rig) I was asking what to run the RPMs up too to actually do a little good at keeping some juice going into this system..

1200-1500rpm sounds reasonable..

It's late here in OR and I gotta get back to my wench...

HD