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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: 95yj0645 on January 24, 2011, 09:25:50 PM
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I have a smittybilt xrc8 winch and it isnt working .. its seriously been used twice since I bought it so its brand new .. currently temps are very cold and we have snow .. a guy slid off the road so i was going to winch him out but once I plugged in the controller it was no go .. did i fry my switch?when i push up to spool out the red light blinks for a split second then goes off with a flash of green.. when i push down to spool in the green light flicks on for a second then off with a flash of red .. you DO NOT hear the solenoid click on either time. i took an awesome detailed vid on my ipod but it wont load to youtube it would make this so much easier to explain
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I have a smittybilt xrc8 winch and it isnt working .. its seriously been used twice since I bought it so its brand new .. currently temps are very cold and we have snow .. a guy slid off the road so i was going to winch him out but once I plugged in the controller it was no go .. did i fry my switch?when i push up to spool out the red light blinks for a split second then goes off with a flash of green.. when i push down to spool in the green light flicks on for a second then off with a flash of red .. you DO NOT hear the solenoid click on either time. i took an awesome detailed vid on my ipod but it wont load to youtube it would make this so much easier to explain
Hmm, there really isn't much to a winch. Although if it was a solenoid, then you should still have one direction working normally. I'd suspect the controller. I'd need to see a schematic to se able to see what the controller actually does though. Blinky lights seems weird.
Found this: http://www.outhouseoffroad.com/tech.html
You can use it to make a jumper to bypass the controller and see if the winch works. it's also a good idea to have a dash controller as well as people are always losing the controllers.
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Got my vid to upload just waiting for approval now.. Jeffy awesome link!! That's freakin cool only thing I wouldn't like is for spoiling the winch up
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http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=UAShBKePyqU
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http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=UAShBKePyqU
That link doesn't work. It's also the mobile link. What's your user name? I tried xl_blazer but it's not showing anything.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/UAShBKePyqU
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lets try that
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Hmm, after looking at some of the pictures, I suspect it's the solenoid. I guess they went cheap and instead of using 4 robust yet simple solenoids they went with some small controller. Probably need to call Smittybilt or whoever owns them now and have them send a replacement or else you could build a standard solenoid pack.
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/flyingwil/Ruhx4xr6rEI/AAAAAAAABLU/b7hY302zZ7w/s800/IMG_2490.JPG)