[Rhodes22-list] Motor Lift Failure and Repair

[Chris Geankoplis]

Good solution. Thanks
Chris G
ENOSIS

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 10:07, Gary Felix <gfelix1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> About a month ago, I discovered that the motor lift on my R22 would not
> raise the motor to the up position. It would lower the motor without
> problem. However, with hurricane Dorian approaching with the possible need
> move the boat from its lift to its trailer, a motor in the fully lowered
> position was a problem. I quickly was over my head in electrical
> troubleshooting, so I called Warn, the manufacturer of the 1700 winch used
> for the lift. Their support team suspected a solenoid problem in the
> control unit that is installed with a strap to the winch motor itself.
>
> The Warn 1700 is a discontinued model. It has been replaced by the Warn
> 92000, which I ordered from Amazon for $99. I elected to use a mobile
> marine service to do the contortions needed to work on the winch in the
> lazerette. By running jumper cables from the battery directly to the
> terminals on the winch motor (bypassing the control unit), it was
> determined that the motor operated without issues in both the up and down
> directions, depending on which polarity was applied to which terminal. We
> decided to leave the motor from the 1700 and install only the control unit
> and remote from the 92000. I should mention that the old remote appeared to
> have different pin configurations than the new, so the new remote was used.
> The one catch was that the plastic housing of the new control unit was
> shaped differently that the old. It could not be installed with the strap
> around the motor because the port cockpit drain was in the way. The control
> unit was cable tied in place next to the motor.
>
> I've attached pics of the old installation and the new one, in hopes that
> this may help others who run into this problem.
>
> Gary
> Panacea, FL
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