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The bumper looks good! I've been eyeballing that one myself. How do you like the fit and finish of it? Also could you post a few more pics of it. I've been trying to find real life pics vs the advertisement ones. Thanks, sorry to hijack your thread.
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That's why a fuse is useless . They make fuses rated that high of amperage but they simply won't blow, the wire shielding would be a melted puddle first. The battery would die before a fuse that high rated would blow.
Are you saying that if you touch the positive winch cable to the ground that a 300 amp fuse won’t blow? I haven’t tried it but in my unprofessional opinion it should blow.
 

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Are you saying that if you touch the positive winch cable to the ground that a 300 amp fuse won’t blow? I haven’t tried it but in my unprofessional opinion it should blow.
I've seen it with my own eyes, a fuse that high in amperage is almost impossible to blow. It may blow or the battery will discharge first either way not a desirable end result. If you took the cable straight to ground I'll bet the fuse blows but in a chaffing I would bet battery goes first. Point here is that there is a better solution with a solenoid which warn sells for this very purpose. Warn does not ship with or recommend a fuse.
 

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Wired right to the battery, no fuse no solenoid , been like that on every Jeep I’ve had and the trucks my dad has since 83 :like:

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I've seen it with my own eyes, a fuse that high in amperage is almost impossible to blow. It may blow or the battery will discharge first either way not a desirable end result. If you took the cable straight to ground I'll bet the fuse blows but in a chaffing I would bet battery goes first. Point here is that there is a better solution with a solenoid which warn sells for this very purpose. Warn does not ship with or recommend a fuse.
I used both. Warn doesn’t ship with a solenoid or recommend to “not use a fuse” either. But I get your point in that a solenoid is better.

One reason I use a solenoid is because I have a winch that is radio controlled, smittybilt x20. This winch draws power for the radio controller and thus has a switch on the winch to turn it off. With a solenoid, I can leave the controller switch on all the time because there is no power to the winch.
 

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I went with Warn 8K just need to swap out the wire rope for synthetic line. Used Maximus winch plate. Wired directly to battery.
 

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Mine has negative straight to battery, positive to solenoid and solenoid to battery with short one foot run. Solenoid triped by aux switch.

There is a hole already there where bracket was installed, I just put in nutsert and bolted bracket to space it out over factory wiring.

Sidewinder just installed, haven't tried yet.
Where did you get the bracket for the solenoid?
 

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Where did you get the bracket for the solenoid?

It was left over from the bumper install. It was intended to adapt a cube light instead of factory fog lights. I was going through my junk I keep looking for metal to fabricate something and came across these that I saved and it fit what I needed with no modification. That's why I never through away metal pieces, often they repurpose well.
 

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It was left over from the bumper install. It was intended to adapt a cube light instead of factory fog lights. I was going through my junk I keep looking for metal to fabricate something and came across these that I saved and it fit what I needed with no modification. That's why I never through away metal pieces, often they repurpose well.
Thank you for the info, kind sir. It looks perfect for the job.
 
 



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