willyj
Member Since: 19 Oct 2009
Location: In the not so wild west wales
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Just wondering what amps are the caravan towing electrics? I need to get a portable winch (cant be a hand one!) which I can chuck in the boot and don't really want to have it hard wired straight to the battery, so I thought if the electrics were capable of taking it.
Is this possible? Ive found a warn winch like this
http://www.warn.com/adventuretouring/RT15_winch.shtml
cheers
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Gareth
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Location: Bramhall
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It draws 65 amps at max pull, which would instantly kill the towing electrics. You need to hard wire this to the main battery. Why not fit an Anderson plug into the boot side panel to allow easy connect/disconnect?
Its not too difficult to run some heavy guage wiring to the boot area.
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| 5th Dec 2011 11:00 am |
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willyj
Member Since: 19 Oct 2009
Location: In the not so wild west wales
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would a leisure battery operate it with the grey plug to charge it?
and would i need to fit a split charger relay or is there one built into the landrover with the wiring harness of the grey plug?
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| 8th Dec 2011 12:24 pm |
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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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you can get a bakrak that fits over the tow bar and holds a winch. you will need heavy duty cables as under load the winch can draw a lot
However, I would suggest you think again. I had a rear winch for mounting on the tow bar - its was way too heavy and not the sort of thing you would just "chuck in the boot". the weight of the winch, bracket and rope made it impractical IMO
depends on what you want to use it for though - not self recovery I assume Duncan
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