Help with windless

[smckean (Tosca)]

One small contribution to this thread......

I used to have endless troubles with my vertical windlass when toward the end of bringing up the rode, the rode would slip in the gypsy. I chalked this up to a worn rope near the anchor. Eventually I reversed the rode to bring fresh rope to the anchor end.....same problem.

The issue turned out to be simple. Since the vertical motor lessens the distance from the bottom of the chain locker to the spot where the rope is free to coil up, the rode made a pile inside the chain locker right up to, and touching, the windlass motor. This eliminated all the tension on the rope pulling the rest of the rode into the chain locker. These days if I have deployed a lot of rode (say over 100'), as I pull up the rode, I periodically reach inside the chain locker and push down the pile of rode under the motor distributing it more evenly throughout the locker.

Voila....no more problem.

[NORO LIM]

[jkswor]

Update. I think I fixed it. Discovered positive wire connected to a buss bar where other accessories are I took the red positive wire and hooked direct to charging battery. It works fine now.