Hello again all!
Another beautiful weekend on buzzards Bay! Not as much wind but, still
got out and about!!
Anyway, I'm having issues with my windlass. It just doesn't work...
We have not even tried using it this year. Given the boat being new, we
decided that we could live without it for the time being and use
moorings. We want to get it going now.
I got the meter out. I have power to the breaker, I have power to the
dual direction solenoid, I have power to the switches. I even jumped
the switches and the thing did not power. It did power up during survey.
While looking around I noticed that the cable lugs bolted to the
solenoid were not covered and the negative lead was resting on the hot
lug. I'm guessing this shorted the solenoid. However the replacement
is $150 and I don't want to spend it just to find out that it didn't fix
it...
Does anyone have any opinions or insights?
Thanks!
--
Danny
T40
Rum Runner IV
Mattapoisett, MA
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