[notjustafordguy]

Yes, just has a different face on it. My switch is all wired into two other switches. I have a positive, a ground, and two leads coming from it, my question is, where do I hook it up? On my solenoid I have three pins, left-yellow, center-black and the blue on the right side? What I am thinking is that them two Yw/Bl wires are the in/out?
These are the only two pics I have of the switch.

 

[notjustafordguy]

Thanks Bro! Hey, digging through my manuals... I just realized my winch is blue tooth, lol, I bought it on sell a year ago, with that, I still think a switch would be a great backup or vis-versa.

I am curious why the blue/yellow color-coded wires are reversed at solenoid. could be they were just assembled backwards

What makes you think they are backwards? Anyway you agree that the green blue are the in/out. Question - the switch panel is grounded at the batt. but you say I should run another ground to the solenoid, I'm confused.

My switch is wired like diagram B and I have made a harness with two whites and power/ground wire, all tucked away in conduit and running through the firewall. I just thought I only need to run the white wires all the way to the winch?

 

[notjustafordguy]

Thanks for your help, but I am still at a loss.
The picture you posted from Nlight, section B shows two power leads that attach to the winch, both white wires, then you have the power and ground wires the go straight to the battery, this is where I am still confused? I understand what you mean about grounding the center post of the solenoid, and I checked with Warn and the colors on the winch are correct, being yellow/ground/blue. I thought this would be simple, meaning attach the two white wires to the in and out and just attach the power and ground to the battery?

I know you are doing your best to help me and I am trying my best to understand you. The problem is I have to do all this with the bumper and winch off of my jeep cause there is no other way to do it.

 

[notjustafordguy]

Let's look at it this way.
The winch currently has two separate electric processes.

• 1. solenoid pac with the small wires to signal winch motor via the bluetooth and connected handheld controller.
• 2. Winch motor that controls the cable

Say the two are separate functions.
The winch motor gets its power from the large ga. wires from the Battery, 12+(Red)and 12v-(Black). That's all it needs to run the motor, but nothing tells it which way to run, in or out.
Enter the Solenoid circuits
The solenoid terminals take low amperage 12v wiring. You need 12v to activate the solenoids at the winch, Usually you get that 12v from the 2/4/6ga wires from the battery at the winch (in your 1st pic you can see that where the sm. red wire is connected to the large ga Red Terminal.). Your Supplied controller is what completes the directional circuit to signal the winch motor which direction to turn.
All it does is close a heavy duty contactor in the Winch to run the motor in the desired direction.

Enter your Rocker Switch. A third electrical function which would serve you best by being wired independent of the Warn electronics. JMHO
All you need is to provide 12v to the directional terminal (Blue or Yellow on the controller) from the harness you designed.
You have a choice.
Option 1, run a 12v signal from the winch main 12v terminal (Reds) to the switch and back to the yellow/blue terms on controller. (3 wires) 1 12v+, 1 in and 1 out
Option 2. use 12v at light switch bank to supply 12v and run (2 wires) 1 in, and 1 Out to front via harness.
The question is whether you want the winch to run on demand hot all the time, or off of a switched key on source.

Digest this for a minute and see if it helps..

Thanks for clearing that up, I really appreciate it 👍

 

[notjustafordguy]

Hey Got, I wired it like I hoped it should be, I just made a three wire pigtail with enough wire to get my bumper and winch on, I'll figure out the in and out later. Sooooo, many things have been holding me up, "I swear if I can't get this together before winter I am going to torch this damn thing! From parts to painting and all the little crap to make it all go together. Anyway, here is a picture of what I did, and as far as changing any wire out at the switch, that's not going to happen. What I would like to do is power that set of switches from a different switch, that way I do not have to worry about the switch being bumped.

So look at the pic and tell me what I did wrong, lol.
Thanks again!

 

[notjustafordguy]

That's exactly how I would do it.
Might have skipped the tap/slice things and went to something more like this.
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But what you've got works good too. Just in case the poles are reversed.

Here is the end result.

Thanks for the help!