Hi .... have a snowbear plow with a bad winch switch, it's about a 40 amp switch. What I want to do is eliminate the switch and install a double momentary toggle using two relays ... think this will work ... any ideas ? ..... thanks
I don't see why not, I would use some hefty relays, a winch pulls quite a bit of jiuce under load.
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Tire Proz Stillwater Mn
High End Restyling and Comlete Repair
Having just gotten rid of that plow (in the favour of a far better Blizzard plow), I can tell you that the switch itself passes a crapload of current. It gets warm. I went through one of them in the year I had it. You are going to need some real big relays to run the current that is being passed. The toggle switch is a easy cheesy. Good luck with the quest.
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Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.
I have a Snow Bear plow and just built a wired remote that I think is better than what they provide.
First off the winch only uses 30 AMPS. SO the relays I used were rated for 40 AMP. I made a switch box that has 2 mini momentary switches. I plug this in under my dash. I used a round 4 wire trailer plug to do this. I grounded one wire off of each switch. Then took th2 2 remaining ones to the 2 relays and hooked them up. One relay fires neg/pos and the other fires it in reverse. Any questions please ask away.
My setup works fine and no heat from it. The other thing you can do is now Snow Bear offers a wireless remote setup that is plug and play for 249.00 it comes with a key chain type remote with an up and down button. I built me remote setup for under 20.00
Not a bad deal, kind of like KC Lites charging 75 bux for the kit to make your drls work with the headlites.. 2 50 cent relays and abou 50 cents in wire , oh yeah the 50 cent prewired relay sockets... Glad it worked for ya...
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Tire Proz Stillwater Mn
High End Restyling and Comlete Repair