Last night I removed my ARB bumper, trimmed a small 3 inch long section out of the driverss side inner support and bolted my Warn M12,000 feet first into the stock bumper holes. As I mentioned a week or two ago; the ARB rep said that no reinforcements are needed for the M12,000 AS LONG AS you bolt on the fairlead to help rigidity.
Once I had the bumper bolted back to the truck I reattached the cable to the winch and used my jumper cables for a quick jury rigged way to spool the cable back in. On Warn’s site they say the M12000 requires 67 Amps in order to spool the wire back in with no load. I assumed my cheapo battery could keep up with this as the stock alternator puts out 75 Amps?
I spool in most of the cable until about the last 10 feet when the winch stops and does not spool in any farther. It easily feeds cable out but will not take it in. I give the truck five minutes and it allows me to spool in a few more feet but then stops again and will not let me spool any more in. Is this my battery or is something wrong with the winch? I bought it used a few years back so I don’t know its history.
I had my choke pulled out so that my truck revved at 2,200 RPM’s while I was doing this. I wanted to make sure that I was getting decent output from the alternator. I noticed that whenever I would spool in cable that the engine would lag as if the alternator had a higher load on it? I assumed that the alternator always put out 100% and it was the regulator that allowed current to come out at different rates based on the load requirements?
I will go dual battery soon but I wanted to see if those with more experience knew if my issue was my battery or if it’s an obvious winch issue that needs attention.
Once I had the bumper bolted back to the truck I reattached the cable to the winch and used my jumper cables for a quick jury rigged way to spool the cable back in. On Warn’s site they say the M12000 requires 67 Amps in order to spool the wire back in with no load. I assumed my cheapo battery could keep up with this as the stock alternator puts out 75 Amps?
I spool in most of the cable until about the last 10 feet when the winch stops and does not spool in any farther. It easily feeds cable out but will not take it in. I give the truck five minutes and it allows me to spool in a few more feet but then stops again and will not let me spool any more in. Is this my battery or is something wrong with the winch? I bought it used a few years back so I don’t know its history.
I had my choke pulled out so that my truck revved at 2,200 RPM’s while I was doing this. I wanted to make sure that I was getting decent output from the alternator. I noticed that whenever I would spool in cable that the engine would lag as if the alternator had a higher load on it? I assumed that the alternator always put out 100% and it was the regulator that allowed current to come out at different rates based on the load requirements?
I will go dual battery soon but I wanted to see if those with more experience knew if my issue was my battery or if it’s an obvious winch issue that needs attention.
