Member - Tony & Julie (FNQ) replied:

Yes it has happened to me on a couple of occasions with mine, I had some electrical cleaner and just sprayed it liberally into the controller through any gap I could find. Have not had trouble since then. I assume it must be a contact problem, so if you take it apart and give it a clean it may help or do what I did and it may help.

Cheers Tony

obee1212 replied:

I am assuming that by winch controller you mean the hand piece and not the box with the relays.

I bought an X9 sans hand controller and cable. You cant buy a new cable and hand piece without the control box which all comes to over four hundred dollars. I fixed this by fitting trailer light fittings to plug the cable in. These must be the cheapest plug and socket you can buy or in my case, find in the junk box.

The hand piece I made with a rocker switch and momentary switch both 240 volt stuff you can get from a hardware shop. These rocker switches are the standard light switch and can be wired to go on either setting. In this case, go reverse one way and forward the other. the momentary switch is of course to operate by pressing and stopping by letting go. I carved up a piece of wood to take the switches. The cable was an old extension cord.

I think I only paid for the momentary switch which cost about seven dollars.

I am telling you this in case you want an alternative to buying an expensive replacement. You have the cable already so making a hand piece should not be a prob for you or one of your handy friends.

Owen

Member - Donald S (WA) replied:

Thanks for the reply Owen. ARB have taken the old one back and replaced it again under warranty. This was more than I had asked for or expected