New winch from scale offroad

[JasonC]

Stefan at www.scaleoffroad.com make a real nice Cherokee and has added a scale Warn winch to the market.

I'll be testing this little winch over the next day or so.

Here's a few shots.

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I've already mounted it, but install shots will be coming soon.

[CM_113]

awesome details, thaeir site is killer, i have spent many an hour there looking at their attention to detail, my wife thought the kee was real at first

[master_of_desaster]

sweet jason! ill wont have to make one afterall i guess! thanks! such attention to detail Stefan has! great pics!

[JasonC]

Made a controller for this thing tonight.

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I gutted an old Hitec servo of its controller board, potentiometer, and motor. When you crack your servo open you'll find that there are three wires connected to the motor. One is positive (brown here), one is negative (orange), and the third (black) is grounded to the motor can to reduce the possibility of noise being generated while the servo is in operation. In this picture I had already cut the pot and the motor and re-soldered them for testing.




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The wires for the pot (green, yellow, and red) were shortened and re-soldered to the board and the black wire that was connected to the motor was de-soldered from the board. This was all done with the 400 Watt gun and the 1/4" tip which is included for size reference. :o


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Another thing I did was shorten the shank of the pot. I just used a Dremel and a cut-off wheel to cut it down then put a slot in it for adjustment. Those with keen eyes will see where I also started slotting my thumbnail. :eek:

Once the thumbnail dust had cleared I plugged the servo lead into the channel I planned to use to control the winch and adjusted the pot until the motor didn't spin at center stick (I'm using a DX6). I put a little shoo-goo around the pot to hold it in place.



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Once I felt the shoo-goo had cured enough to handle I slid the pot into some heat shrink tubing and chased it with the circuit board. I de-soldered the motor leads from the stock servo motor and installed some Dean's Micro connectors to the orange and brown wires.



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Heat gun + heat shrink = shrinkage.



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Fitted the bumper in place, made note of where the winch lines needed to pass through the grille and used the Dremel to drill a couple of holes for the power leads. I then slotted the two holes to become one.



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On the inside of the body I did the same thing - drilled a couple of holes and slotted them for the wires to pass through. The round hole you see there is for the front body mount pins. The two Allen screws are two of the five screws that fasten the bumper to the body. There are a total of five screws that fasten the bumper to the body, I need to drill two more holes in my body to line up with the two additional holes in the bumper. All of the screws thread into brass threaded inserts that are installed in the bumper.



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Micro Dean's connector is installed on the winch motor leads.



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All that's left is finding a spot to mount the controller. I chose to mount this one on top of the shifting servo with Velcro.

That's it...done deal. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get some video.

[Benz]

nice do you know how much it is because if it is really cheap i might buy it??

[master_of_desaster]

awesome walk through jason! i'll def. be on this thing soon!

[JasonC]

nice do you know how much it is because if it is really cheap i might buy it??

Depends on your definition of "really cheap".

Winch unit is: 130,- EURO (195.- US$)
Snatch block is: 15,- EURO (22.50 US$)
Hook is: 7,50 EURO (11,25 US$) .... I've tested the hook to it's durability, and it holds 20 kg without any problem and began to bend a little at 25 kg.
Roller fairlead is: 17,50 EURO (26.25 US$)

Considering the $195 winch is mounted to a $3,000 crawler..."cheap" is a relative term.

[master_of_desaster]

cheap......is that a word? never heard of it, can i get it in a sentence please? lol

[JasonC]

My plan for tonight is to set up a Castle BEC so I can use that at 6V with the servo setup I made.

I'll also put connectors on a Moped so I can use it.

Tomorrow I'll shoot video of all three configurations:

1. Servo controller powered by Novak Rooster BEC (6V, 5A)

2. Servo controller powered by Castle BEC. (6V, 10A)

3. Winch powered by Moped ESC. (7.2V)

[master_of_desaster]

wow bunch of electric talk. believe it or not jason im not all too smart with electronics...like voltage and stuff! its quite fascinating tho! im excited to see how it works on the Rooster BEC (i have a rooster FYI)

[OldSchoolRC]

that's sweet! i'm not sure how much cajones that little motor has, but an action shot of that truck winching itself out of a mud pit would be awesome...in fact, i could probably fool most of my friends into thinking it was a real - it looks that good!

[focus07]

Cool. I too like that website. I have plans on making a scale but not the funds,lol. Can we see it on video soon?

[master_of_desaster]

pretty pretty please!?!

[Benz]

Depends on your definition of "really cheap".

Winch unit is: 130,- EURO (195.- US$)
Snatch block is: 15,- EURO (22.50 US$)
Hook is: 7,50 EURO (11,25 US$) .... I've tested the hook to it's durability, and it holds 20 kg without any problem and began to bend a little at 25 kg.
Roller fairlead is: 17,50 EURO (26.25 US$)

Considering the $195 winch is mounted to a $3,000 crawler..."cheap" is a relative term.

okay that sounds good i think that if i get a rock crawler built i will think of putting that winch on it.

[master_of_desaster]

well if its scale why not?! but even not scale its useful on comp rigs and bashers as well

[Benz]

well if its scale why not?! but even not scale its useful on comp rigs and bashers as well

yeah i know thats why im thinking about putting one on my rock crawler

[master_of_desaster]

im accumulating up some cash money to get an order for this kewl winch! thanks Jason!

[countryboy4life]

That looks awesome JIA!!!! But that much for a winch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( I think i'll pass!! lol. :(

[JasonC]

Here's a shot of it in action.

[countryboy4life]

Looks good Jason!!!! Where you pulling the jeep up the hill or the rock racer down the hill!!!!! :confused:

[Benz]

Here's a shot of it in action.

now i definitly wont to put it on my rock crawler:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[JasonC]

Looks good Jason!!!! Where you pulling the jeep up the hill or the rock racer down the hill!!!!! :confused:

You can't see it in that image, but there was a big ledge just in front of the buggy. I had intended to pull the XJ up the ledge but without applying throttle as I winched I pulled the buggy down the hill. :D

[Taylor]

Cant wait to see the video you are talking about. C'mon Jason quit holding us in suspense! :D