Yeah, not so much

So my super-cool dual motor Yeah Racing winch died a horrible death yesterday.
Maybe my rig is too heavy, maybe there was some dirt or grit in the gearbox, I don't know. All I heard was grinding and spinning the last time I went to use it. It spooled out fine, but it wouldn't reel back in. And it was an even worse pain trying to get it off than it was putting it on!

So I'll be shopping for a newer stronger winch. I'm thinking either a Warn or maybe I'll go with a Servo winch and hide it under the hood.

Out to Play

Just a couple pics of the Deadbolt as of recently.

Goolsky Winch Controller

Picked up one of these little gems from Amazon

This one is listed as the Goolsky Winch Controller but you'll find it under many names.
It's actually a small Electronic Speed Controller.

There were some modifications I had to make to get it to work with my Winch .

First because this is an ESC and it provides a BEC I needed to cut or remove the center RED wire from the receiver plug. Then I needed to swap the two red plugs around. In my case, the wire from the winch had a male plug and the cable I needed to connect it to also had a male. Also the wire from the controller going to the battery was a female (so you can plug it into a small 2s) but I needed it to be a male so I could plug it into the Y splitter coming off the 3rd channel. One side of the Y would take the Servo plug, the other one would supply the power to the winch.