Need another juice-trician,,,,,

 Well, finally to the point of re0installing the new pump in the well. I had rigged up a Harbor Freight 2500# winch on the front end loader to pull the old pump and worked like a charm,,,,

 Now,,I cannot find the friggin controller for the winch,,!!!  The winch motor only has two contacts,,, a Positive and a negative ,,,also a "box" bout 4" square with two wires to motor contacts and two other wires wioth a circuit breaker going to the positive of the battery. I tried contacting Harbor Freight but lady tells me they do not have any replacement parts!!!  I'll be a SOB,,,!!!

 I KNOW somebody here can figure me out how to "fashion" a replacement controller until I find the THIEF that stole my controller,,,,,,

 ANY ONE,,??

Ok, found one, tore it apart...

the connector to the 'remote' has 3 wires....

red, goes to +12 battery

yel, goes to one relay

brn, goes to the other relay

so.. touch red to yel, winch goes in, touch red to brn, winch goes out..

the other controller uses red for +12, grn for in, blk of out...

so much for 'stanards'......

hope this helps

and

yes, STILL k-k-k-kold here..

jay

You could setup a couple switches to do it, but your talking BIG SWITCHES... Thats probably why they use the RELAYS.. Small switches carry 4-5 amp signals to the RELAYS that when ENGAGED will carry 50 amps for the motor.

Basically you have a RED and BLACK wire going to that box.. that is HOT and GROUND.. the other two wire should make the motor go forward or reverse..  The "BOX" is using one wire for FWD and one for REV... but i dont know if it is connecting the one wire to the RED or the BLACK ??

something like this.. See the RED and BLACK are the supply to the relay...  the SWITCH either connects the RED wire to the little T5 or the little T6 wire..... they dont need the GROUND running to the switch on this system... dont know about yours. .. it may have the ground just for the REMOTE to work.?  T5 and T6 would be the white and yellow wires.

It is nice that Harbor Tools has online manuals, you can see the parts list.

Call them, they hardly ever have what you need.

They do have a master .pdf file of parts they supposedly stock:

I hope this helps somebody someday find the part they need. Or if you want to buy a tool you can check the parts situation before deciding on the purchase. Full service they are not.

What ever you do, dont  push BOTH buttons at the same time.. There are "DUAL" switches that you push one way for up and push the other way for down.. BUT most are ON- OFF- ON ........ you want MOMENTARY so it does no stay ON when you move your finger off switch ( or button). .......... I have bought starter BUTTON switches at the local Auto Zone for the tractor ignition... Two of those would work good.

Found this at AMAZON..............

shameless dude wrote: just buy another winch and use it's control box, then you'll have another winch fer parts!

   SHAMELESS,,,don't you get tired of spending MY money,,,,

 Well,,,Steve and Jay,,,I was a determined man this morning and told ole JOE,,,"we gonna test out what them boys are tellin me on  how to make a replacement lost remote chingas,,,,"

 And,,,,and,,,It Worked!!!!!   Red to Yellow and winch went IN,,,then Red To White and winch went OUT pretty as you please,,,!!!!

 I went ahead and made a 3 wire jumper with about a 15 foot cord from an old vacuum,  now just gotta wait til I go to the Alien town to Home depot to get one of them 3 way switches. Then I'm gonna hook up with a 3 wire quick disconnect and leave the remote receiver inside the box,,,in case them friggin cats in the garage bring the remote back some day,,,,,

 THANK YOU BOTH for helpin me out on this one,,,,I'll wait a couple of more days and see IF I want to thank ole Shameless,,,,,,,,,?