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Just a quick question, will a WARN hand controller from a 9000XP fit a Superwinch X9? Have a Superwinch but the controller died and I can get a free WAN hand controller but not sure if its the same pins.

jsttry wrote:Just a quick question, will a WARN hand controller from a 9000XP fit a Superwinch X9? Have a Superwinch but the controller died and I can get a free WAN hand controller but not sure if its the same pins.

get the free one and try it, if it doesnt fit, sell it

yeah yeah but will be a few days before I can do that so thought I'd ask

well got the winch today. its a 4 pin socket with 3 wires. The warn controllers are a 5 pin socket from memory so no luck.

Could always wire it up direct to cab rather than using a controller, but will test it out and see what needs to be rebuilt first.

If you want to hybridise the controller or rewire it, then I wouldn't worry too much about all of the wires from the Warn. The Warn is still basically a 3 pin controller with a common wire which is switched to the feed in and the feed out wires. It takes 5 sec's with a multimeter to work out which is what. The other 2 wires just connect the solinoid earth. The controller switch is actually a double switch so when you tell it to winch, it simultaneously connects the earth to the solinoids to let them operate. Its just some gizmo to help prevent vandals winching your car in half. If you want to wire in the Warn as a 3 pin, it'll still work, just leave the earth directly connected to the solinoids in the solinoid box, or join the wires in the winch hand controller which will make the solinoids active when the controller is plugged in. The winch in/out/common wires are all bound together, and the 2xearth wires are bound together.

As you sy though, test it out first. The controllers are really just a switch and a couple of wires, so its probably something really simple.

Slunnie wrote:Its just some gizmo to help prevent vandals winching your car in half.

I have heard of this so many times for so many years but never actually seen any proof? Does anyone actually have any photographic evidence of this stunt being done or is it just an urban myth?

I've not seen it done, though you cant knock the 5pin setup for helping to prevent this type of thing from happening. It wont prevent it, but it will mean that tampering with the winch is a lot more difficult, as in how to work out how to short the control box to make it winch. 3pin setup is a no brainer to short out and make it winch. With a 5 pin there will be a lot of combinations to try and it will require correct 2 shorts through 5 pins, get it wrong and it will probably also blow the short wire straight out of it too. A 3pin with just one short with an 66% chance of getting it right, and 99% of working it out if you dont get it right.

r0ck_m0nkey wrote:

Slunnie wrote:Its just some gizmo to help prevent vandals winching your car in half.

I have heard of this so many times for so many years but never actually seen any proof? Does anyone actually have any photographic evidence of this stunt being done or is it just an urban myth?

Mythbusters

Anyone care to write to them????

DAMKIA wrote:

r0ck_m0nkey wrote:

Slunnie wrote:Its just some gizmo to help prevent vandals winching your car in half.

I have heard of this so many times for so many years but never actually seen any proof? Does anyone actually have any photographic evidence of this stunt being done or is it just an urban myth?

Mythbusters

Anyone care to write to them????

http://community.discovery.com/eve/foru ... 2991937776

it happened at Newcastle about 5 years ago to the cops patrol all it did was bend the bull bar, chassis, tow bar, and the battery went flat we seen it on the back of a tilt tray it was bent but not to the extent as people claim