simpson lawrence 600 windless ??????????

[seahornet]

new windless will not retreive line . I have new 1/2 line and chain as per manuf. specs , windless pulls in about 10 feet of line very ,very, very slowwwwwlllllly then grinds to a stop and trips breaker , motor is extremely hot. I have adjusted tension , but this does not help. Please help !!!!!!!!

[warthog5]

How's the wiring? I just installed a 600 [free fall] So far it retrived all 600ft to load in the anchor locker and has retrived a anchor set in 35ft of water.

Are you using it to pull the boat along? That would be incorrect. Use the windless to retrive the anchor only and move the boat foward with the boat's motor.

[seastrike]

You check your anchor locker? If the rode is not dropping properly it will bind up. I've got a LM Horizon and have that problem on my new boat - haven't figured out how to deal with it yet, but the symptoms are very similar (although I stop before the breaker pops...)

[lobsta1]

#1: How deep is your anchor well? #2: How deep is your anchor well? #3 How deep is your anchor well? The #1, 2 & 3 problems with a windlass is the lack of depth in the anchor well. The width of the well doesn't really matter. When the windlass is working properly, you can watch as the rode is fed in. As the well fills, the diameter of the coil will just about equal the depth of the drop. If there is only about a foot of drop left & you still have another 100' of rode to feed in: it ain't gonna happen. IF it does, it will be full of hockles & soon after when you try to drop the anchor, the rode will jam. Since this is a new install , did you use a large enough gauge wire? Did you figure the gauge for the TOTAL distance? From battery to breaker to windlass & BACK to the battery? I know it is basic but sometimes people forget to count the return length. Are you sure all your crimps are tight? If you have an infrared heat gun, you could check to see if any of the connections are heating up. As an example, since I installed a Freefall 900, I'll assume my B33 is larger. My total run was 70' & I had to use one gauge wire.

Warthog, I sincerely believe you will have problems in the future. When I had my 27' Sea Ray (with 10' beam) to be able to carry 300' of rode I had to keep the last 100' pulled out & stored in the vee-berth. If I left it all in the locker, end result was guaranteed hockles & then jams. Seastrike, you may be having the same problem.

Al