Warn winch runs when solenoids have power

[KMR]

For those of you who are Cruiserheads, I just posted this on MUD as well, but I thought I might have better luck here.


So:
New Warn9.5xp
Had to go and be difficult and move the control box up under the hood.
I labeled everything real carefully (I thought I did anyway)
As soon as the power cable to the solenoid box gets power, the winch starts to turn with no remote hooked up.

What did I mess up?

I did this late last night and have not had time to trouble shoot yet but I dont even know what I should check.

The only thing that I think I could have done is reverse the field (F1,F2) wires. I thought that would only make it run backwards though, not all the time.

[xcmountain80]

Sounds like at some point something is bypassing a switchable circuit "solenoid" and providing continuous uninterrupted power. You know this already of course because it is not working properly. You must have bypassed a solenoid at some point. Did you disassemble the solenoid pack at any point? I looked it up on Warns site and then looked under parts list to make certain I knew the model and solenoid pack, and it is similar to a Warm which I owned in the past and does have 4 solenoids. But if you did not change the config. of these than maybe you just have a simple case of wrong wire wrong placement.


Aaron

[KMR]

I only disconnected the cables, no disassembly of the solenoids.

I was planning on staring at it with a continuity tester on hand and try to see how power was flowing through.
I must have made some stupid simple mistake.

[xcmountain80]

True true its always those stupid mistake that baffle us the most.


Aaron

[KMR]

Ok, got it, stupid mistake, cable on the wrong post. (I didn't let the smoke out though)

Called Warn, got right through, they emailed me a schematic that showed everything very nicely. Get customer service.

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