Voltage drop from high loads cause weird things to happen. Particularly in Florida. Could be nothing really wrong, just a highly stressed but functional system. Maybe take some temperature readings with a laser device and compare different winching loads.
Looks like you were a fair distance from your Jeep with the wireless remote. Could be weak signal, or weak batteries in the remote, maybe.
Rob, good point! I will check that first; I’m fixin’ to head out and get to work on it.
Thanks Mike! I’m first going to run out some line and pull it in with just my mild pressure on it, to see what the solenoids do. With a large-diameter snatch block on a 12K winch though (albeit I didn’t strip off that much line), I expected minimal strain. Perhaps the force of breaking 4-6” of oak with the top end of the spool was more of a strain than I imagined; that branch was completely wedged into the tree at multiple contact points.
Brandon, I graduated from high school down in Hollywood, and I visit there fairly often.
Try taking the revs up a bit, but that would require you to sit inside or have winch mode selected through a tazer. Also, good idea to have it in neutral rather than park while winching.
