current draw on small 12v winch

Possibly would burn a line in the carpet, and may spread. I have considered similar for one of my boats. I decided it was too much hasstle, as most of the time I can use the 90hp on the back to get it on. Maybe a $20.00 battery pack from supercheap with jump cables will do the job with little fuss - I use one to power camping lights and showers etc, it has lasted (to my surprise)18 months, although I have to charge it with a 4 amp charger rather than the 0.4 amp charger that comes with it!

Could be a simle solution for power with many other uses, mine had a handy little fluro built in until I broke it.

Cheers Andrew

That'd be .3Kw... So would that bring you back to 25amps...???

Blue,

Correct the first time. 0.3Kw = 25 amps.

Howie

An Anderson socket with correct wiring at the rear of the vehicle would do the job. That is what I use with my Maxair compressor.

Redeye

Howie,

I'd be wondering if 18 gauge 7A wiring is adequate for the Engel, let alone a little winch. I'd be checking the voltage at the aux battery and at the Engel when it is running. Unless the cable run is quite short, I'd be expecting quite some voltage drop on load. I hate voltage drop and heat across plugs as it all equals wasted electrical energy.

I got some cool black and red cable to go with my Anderson Powerpoles which are rated at 30A and smaller and cheaper than the big grey ones. It's either 10 or 12 guage - or in auto sparky language I think he called it 5mm. I forget what the cross sectional area measurement was, but I'm a lot more confident about the capacity of the wiring now I've run that all over the place.

BTW, I put some left over Powerpoles on ebay Site Link if you want to see them. Great little plugs.

Tim

I have a port-a-winch that has long heavy gauge leads with clips similar to jumper leads, It has an anderson plug onto the winch . You could easily make this without having a permanent installation in your vehicle.

Glenn.