RTH with M12000 wiring

[aktundra]

Tried an easy pull for the first time since last fall. Could not get the winch to work. A lot of fiddling with the remote controller, and would go out sometimes, sometimes would go in, but as soon as it had any load, would stop.

All the heavy wires are firmly connected and the battery has a solid 12v.

In the pic, the control box in sideways with the "bottom" on the right side. Notice the small red and black wires. Now that I have a time to look at it, the black wire goes the ground and the red wire was not attached. It looks to me like maybe during the cold dark winter, I may have been fiddling with something under the hood, and did not reconnect the red wire to the POS terminal.

Can anybody confirm were the red wire should be connected ?

 

[aktundra]

Never mind on the mysterious red wire. I have done a lot of fiddling with this winch (internal controls, grill mounted plug for the remote). I think the little red wire is something I added. If I popped the cover I could probably figure it out.

But I don't think that is my problem. I have 12v at the battery, but with probes on the winch, I am getting intermittent 6v.

Still snowy in these parts and no trips planned. Will set aside a Saturday when the snow melts, pull the cables down, check for shorts. Need to respool cable anyway

 

[Pin_Head]

The voltage doesn't mean much if the circuit is open and the winch motor isn't running. Turn it on and measure the voltage. If the voltage at the motor drops when the winch loads up, there is a high resistance bad connection somewhere that won't let the juice flow. Those wing nut style connectors are notorious for bad connections.

 

[70goat]

Red wire coming out of the control box should be motor ground ,