A little help please if you can.

[hangingon]

When I bought my daughters 06 Foreman the winch cables were not connected to the battery. I connected the cables and everything seemed good we didn't use the winch but she went to start the quad and it just clicked did the same for me. I disconnected the + winch cable from the battery and it turned right over and did so for the rest of the day. I did hook my battery tender up over night after we got done riding. The winch is a 2000lb. super winch I have no manual on the winch. My ? is will a winch drain the battery when its not being used. I wouldn't think it would But I don't know whats going on. Since the winch cables were not connected to the battery when we got it I think there is something with the winch drawing power somehow and that's why it wasn't connected.

[hangingon]

Update I printed off the installation page from superwinch and its wired right. It has a circuit breaker in between the battery and solenoid on the +side, ground from solenoid to - battery and then hot & neg to winch, 2 wires from solenoid too rocker switch & rocker switch has hot too ignition switch. Ive not tried the winch to see if it works I need to do that as well.

[bansheedave]

Electrical gremlins are a nightmare to trace. I would check continuity at the switch and see if it maybe bad. The winch itself may have a bad motor. It may work fine but it also maybe drawing amps away from the solenoid causing the starter to malfunction. I'm leaning towards the switch myself but that's me.

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Im going to check it out today. One thing I read on the superwinch installation is the hot wire coming from the toggle switch needs to be hooked to a power source that's only hot when the key on. I don't know if the winch has ever been used it looks new and the snatch block the the superwinch strap for the hook were all in the packages unopened & in the storage compartment on the quad.