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landyacht318
Jul 11, 2019Explorer
Have any experience with 'contactors'?
The colehersee 200 amp solenoid I installed was in someone else's rig and was feeding a Crown group 31 AGM battery, which did not have a CCA rating nor appear capable of accepting very high currents nor support high voltage during higher amperage discharge.
I do not personally use a solenoid but make use of manual switches, and with only one battery now, I pretty much never turn them.
Seen some rather robust winch solenoids, I guess one just could ignore the studs which reverse current to the winch:

Look easy enough to take apart and inspect the guts.
Blue $eas $ells $ome 250 amp continuou$ $olenoid$ that look pretty burly. Did I adequately imply they are not inexpensive?

The colehersee 200 amp solenoid I installed was in someone else's rig and was feeding a Crown group 31 AGM battery, which did not have a CCA rating nor appear capable of accepting very high currents nor support high voltage during higher amperage discharge.
I do not personally use a solenoid but make use of manual switches, and with only one battery now, I pretty much never turn them.
Seen some rather robust winch solenoids, I guess one just could ignore the studs which reverse current to the winch:

Look easy enough to take apart and inspect the guts.
Blue $eas $ells $ome 250 amp continuou$ $olenoid$ that look pretty burly. Did I adequately imply they are not inexpensive?

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