New Warn Zeon Winch

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From a Media Article:
Over the last three years WARN has quietly been working with consumers to find out exactly what they wanted in a winch and more importantly—how they wanted a winch to perform. WARN equipped consumers with a variety of prototype models and asked for feedback and honest evaluation and the result is the brand-new WARN ZEON Series. The robust aluminum winch is available in three different capacities with traditional steel rope: 8,000, 10,000 and 12,000 pounds, and two capacities being offered with WARN's Spydura synthetic rope: 8,000 and 10,000 pounds. Oh, and major points to WARN for making the ZEON right here in America.
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The ZEON has been completely built from the ground up and features a symmetrical design which completely does away with any exposed wires on the outside of the housing in addition to providing IP68 sealing to keep the elements where they belong.
Features:
Three-stage planetary gear train
Convertible control pack
Large diameter aluminum drum
Automatic mechanical brake
Stainless steel hardware
New motor and motor housing
Contactor control
IP86 rated weather sealing
Satin black powder coat finish
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WARN is offering its Spydura synthetic rope on 8,000 and 10,000 pound variations.
Synthetic models Include
100’ of 3/8” WARN
Spydura® synthetic rope,
A ballistic nylon sliding chafe sleeve
Polished Aluminum Hawse Fairlead
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Standard versions of the ZEON come with steel wire rope and a roller fairlead. The ZEON 8 comes with 100' of 5/16" wire rope, while the ZEON 10 and ZEON 12 comes with 80' of 3/8" wire rope.
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A winch rope cover is available as an accesory to help protect your rope or wire from the elements.
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In factory form, the ZEON has the control pack mounted ontop of the winch, if this doesn't fit your application, WARN has a Control Pack relocation kit available.
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Pricing:
ZEON 8 - $999.00
ZEON 10 - $1099.00
ZEON 12 - $1199.00
ZEON 8-S $1249.00
ZEON 10-S $1349.00
 
VERY sharp winch...I spent my day at a WARN Media Day and covered all aspects of this new product...very impressive.

Much more coming, will go thru my photos soon :)
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Looks nice and clean, with a low profile. By the way the cases are made, I wonder how water proof (Resistant) it is. I like the what looks like aluminum cases better than the old stamped steel too. With control pack on top of the drum, it would help with the UV on the synthetic line also.

Doug
 
one-piece cast aluminum drum with double lip seals...IP86 certification (from memory) means they were tested by putting them underwater for 30 minutes...with zero leaks....FAR better than other winches, and I believe, the first winch to be certified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code
 
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interesting .. not digging the Darth Vader look with the cap on .. but more interested in automatic mechanical brake ..? same drum brake as always ..?

Let's see those numbers of amps and line speed under full load ..
 
It has some nice features (mechanical) but I just can't get past the aesthetics.

Maybe I'm just too old to appreciate the 'futuristic' look of it.

Looks like someone lifted it off the Bat-Mobile.

I would prefer something more traditional for my cruiser, but we'll see what the market has to say.
 
nice that the rope would be protected much more than on the traditional winches.
OTOH, I looked at the specs of both the zeon and the HD 12Ks and it looks like the specs on the zeon are a bit less impressive. Slower at 12K and only 6,400 lbs vs 9,200 on the 5th layer. Also, 80' vs 125' of rope. 40 lbs lighter, though.
 

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