On/off switch for winch controller

[mdyucca]

Nice setup, running very similar. FYI, not sure if it matters but the SAS-4214 solenoid switch, the instructions that came with Warn packaged SAS-4214 shows the forward post (as you have it mounted) tying into the battery and the rear post going to the winch.

Thanks! I will take a look at it.

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[Bobchadwickga]

Good to know. I do have a Voswitch but it’s on the passenger side. Will need to figure out where to mount the Warn solenoid.

I had mine installed and they put it on the passenger side firewall.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Which of the large posts is hot/battery and which goes to power the winch should not matter.
They literally are the heads of bolts that a disk inside the solenoid makes contact with when the coil is activated, pulling a plunger down - and with it, the disk that hits the bolt heads (the heads of the copper bolts sticking out the side of the solenoid)

The coil side of the solenoid may or may not matter (follow the directions on that part, they'll tell you if it matters).
Warn says to be careful to keep the coil mounting bracket isolated and not grounded. Not sure why.

I connected the winch to mine today and checked it out - pressing AUX3 does energize the solenoid and gives the winch power ......... yay!

I think I'll look into doing up some more professional looking labels instead of my hand printed stuff.

 

[Angry]

OK, I'm struggling. Can someone show me a diagram for wiring a Voswitch to the Warn Power Interrupt? The instructions I find online only show a single wire going to an Aux, yet the Voswitch requires two

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The solenoid/disconnect requires 2 connections.
A. 1 small terminal goes to the truck's GROUND (-) like the body ground post near the battery on the right side.
B. The other small terminal gets power (+) to energize the solenoid and power the winch.

The Voswitch likely requires two for itself.
But when you trigger one of those switches, it should power up a single wire coming from the switch. That one wire would go to the solenoid (B) so the output of one of the Voswitch's would be on a single wire.

The aux switch is already part of the truck, it's integrated. All it does is put power on one of the wires in a harness next to the battery - you connect one of those to the solenoid

 

[Angry]

Thanks, but I'm wondering if anyone has actually done this and can share? The Warn solenoid comes with a switch that requires 3 wires, the Voswitch has 2 wires. Sorry if I'm just a dunce, but I'm not very experienced with wiring

 

[Jaxmax]

The yellow wire in the warn directions goes to the Voswitch, you only need one wire from the relay in the voswitch to the warn interupt solenoid, hook the other wire on the solenoid to ground on battery as it says, even if you have the newer voswitch with ground terminals. The warn switch in the drawing is an illuminated switch which is why they have a ground going to it, power in, power out and ground to light the light when it is on. No worries Angry you got this.....Jack

 

[Jaxmax]

Might have come off a little rude about the ground wire but the Voswitch only has power coming in and then out on one wire for each switched relay, ground gets picked up at ground points instead of adding a bunch of connections. So hooking that yellow wire warn is calling out to your Voswitch will be fine, as for the ground when in doubt always follow manufacturer, who in this case is correct in taking the ground to the negative terminal of the battery as it is right there and less chance of failure....Jack

 

[Angry]

OK cool, that makes sense. Thanks very much. And I didn't find you rude at all, I'm just normally Angry.

 

[Angry]

And now I can confirm that this works. I have the JL400 hooked up to the Warn Power Interrupt and it works great. Thanks to all that weighed in.

 

[Jaxmax]

Bingo! Glad it went went well, now you have to go on to the next Mod, it doesn’t stop!…..Jack

 

[chorky]

Keep the wires SHORT as far as the winch feed.
In other words - keep that winch solenoid (interrupter, whatever) close to the main battery. And keep it close to the winch.
The wire length to control the solenoid isn't nearly as important as keeping the high current big wire between battery and solenoid, and between solenoid and winch as short as you can keep them.
This is one reason my solenoid is close to the battery - and between battery and winch. I want the cables as short as possible. Long cables under a heavy load mean voltage loss - and heat.
I may try to find and use a slightly shorter cable between battery and solenoid on mine. I'm using what came with the solenoid kit but may go shorter if possible.

i would be very curious to see what people do for a rear winch. Theres a few of them. And one nice bumper I am eyeballing by rickhard that has a integrated winch mount

 

[Wilsonb80]

Just did my with a cheap one off Amazon had to play a little since the instructions where horrible.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

i would be very curious to see what people do for a rear winch. Theres a few of them. And one nice bumper I am eyeballing by rickhard that has a integrated winch mount

Run heavy enough cable to handle it. Figure the maximum load your winch could draw, add just a bit for a safety margin, figure the number of feet of wire, and pull out my chart and see what it should have to keep the voltage drop 2% or less.
For that long of a run I'd want really flexible wire, the more strands the better, IMO.
I had thought about welding cables.
If I recall it's about 15' from my aux switch terminal block I made back to the tail lights. So assume maybe a 20' run, and I'd home-run the ground back up as well.
One forum member has mounted a battery up along the box under the body so he's got cables running from the front to his rear mounted battery. Ideally you'd run your winch from a battery back there. But it could be run from the front battery and electric system if you figured large enough cables.

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