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Hello all, its been a while since I last posted so hopefully you'll forgive my absence. I have an electrical/battery related question which I am hoping the brains trust might be able to help me out with (Old Tony is usually pretty good at this sort of stuff).
Firstly the background to my problem: I have recently bought a forward fold camper which weights 1.5tonne. At home we have a very steep driveway (around 3:1) and there isn't room at the top to drive up forwards and unhitch the trailer so I am having to reverse it up the driveway. Thanks to the turning circle of the navara (and my general ineptitude at reversing a trailer with accuracy) this invariably involves a few tries to get it lined up and then up the drive. Long story short I am quite concerned about burning my clutch out (the D40 is a manual) as I have already had to replace the clutch once.
My potential hair brained solution: The back of the trailer has two hitch receivers rated as recovery points and integral in the trailer chaise. I am thinking a good solution could be to mount a 4500lb winch on a hitch receiver cradle, stick it in the hitch receiver and then use this winch to haul the trailer up the driveway. I've already spoken to the camper manufacturer and he has agreed that while an unusual solution it wouldn't be a problem from a structural point of view.
My Question is related to powering this winch. I am thinking the ideal solution would be to power it from a battery specific to this job and not from my ute as it would be down the bottom of the driveway and too far away to be of use. I therefore see I have two options:
Option 1: The camper has 2x100AH deep cycle batteries on board. I could hard wire the winch to these and use them to run the winch. While I don't know a lot about batteries I am presuming this solution would be too easy and therefore not work. Would the deep cycle be the right sort of battery to run the load a winch would draw? Would 2x100AH be enough to run it for any meaningful length of time? Or am I just going to wreck the on board batteries doing this?
Option 2: I could have a dedicated truck battery in a battery box which is permanently connected to the winch. This could live in the garage at home with the winch where I could charge it off the mains when not in use. There is a place on the back of the trailer where the battery box could be placed securely when winching and it would need around 1m of cable form the winch to the battery. Would this be a feasible option, and if so how big a battery should I be looking at using? And what type of battery would be best?
The winch I am thinking of using is something like the one linked below. It states 180Amp when running and a wind rate of 1.3m/min. Our driveway slope is 8m long so would be running for around around 8minutes:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/X-BULL-4500LBS-2041kg-Electric-Winch-Synthetic-Rope-2-Remote-Wireless-ATV-12V-/172032218139?epid=676771799&hash=item280deb541b:g:440AAOSwQr5ZukpR
Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. Cheers
Steven
Firstly the background to my problem: I have recently bought a forward fold camper which weights 1.5tonne. At home we have a very steep driveway (around 3:1) and there isn't room at the top to drive up forwards and unhitch the trailer so I am having to reverse it up the driveway. Thanks to the turning circle of the navara (and my general ineptitude at reversing a trailer with accuracy) this invariably involves a few tries to get it lined up and then up the drive. Long story short I am quite concerned about burning my clutch out (the D40 is a manual) as I have already had to replace the clutch once.
My potential hair brained solution: The back of the trailer has two hitch receivers rated as recovery points and integral in the trailer chaise. I am thinking a good solution could be to mount a 4500lb winch on a hitch receiver cradle, stick it in the hitch receiver and then use this winch to haul the trailer up the driveway. I've already spoken to the camper manufacturer and he has agreed that while an unusual solution it wouldn't be a problem from a structural point of view.
My Question is related to powering this winch. I am thinking the ideal solution would be to power it from a battery specific to this job and not from my ute as it would be down the bottom of the driveway and too far away to be of use. I therefore see I have two options:
Option 1: The camper has 2x100AH deep cycle batteries on board. I could hard wire the winch to these and use them to run the winch. While I don't know a lot about batteries I am presuming this solution would be too easy and therefore not work. Would the deep cycle be the right sort of battery to run the load a winch would draw? Would 2x100AH be enough to run it for any meaningful length of time? Or am I just going to wreck the on board batteries doing this?
Option 2: I could have a dedicated truck battery in a battery box which is permanently connected to the winch. This could live in the garage at home with the winch where I could charge it off the mains when not in use. There is a place on the back of the trailer where the battery box could be placed securely when winching and it would need around 1m of cable form the winch to the battery. Would this be a feasible option, and if so how big a battery should I be looking at using? And what type of battery would be best?
The winch I am thinking of using is something like the one linked below. It states 180Amp when running and a wind rate of 1.3m/min. Our driveway slope is 8m long so would be running for around around 8minutes:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/X-BULL-4500LBS-2041kg-Electric-Winch-Synthetic-Rope-2-Remote-Wireless-ATV-12V-/172032218139?epid=676771799&hash=item280deb541b:g:440AAOSwQr5ZukpR
Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. Cheers
Steven