Agreed: I'm not sure why someone would want to wire a winch to an aux switch.I have Aux lights right now, and considering rock lights and rear spot lights. My winch has a wireless remote, so it seems overkill and complex to wire it to Aux when it's way easier wireless.
You're wiring in a relay to send power to the winch, not to have it spool in/out. Basically, a winch in standard config always has a hot battery cable out to it and you can put a cutoff in so that you have to push the aux button in order to make the power cable hot at the winch. Some like that in case of a crash (not a live wire hanging out down there where there's damage), and some like that simply for the control it gives you over whether or not the device is able to draw power.Agreed: I'm not sure why someone would want to wire a winch to an aux switch.