sdowney717
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- Vessel Name
- Old Glory
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Egg Harbor 37 extended salon model
Rebuilt my windlass motor with wider improved brushes
Motor was made by Briggs & Stratton.
The winch is kind of unusual, the motor is DC, but runs off rectified 120vac.
So it runs off 90 vdc power. No need for huge wires, large current flow, huge DC motor, or a windlass battery. The motor is a modified Briggs small engine starter motor.
The armature is wired differently than a starter motor, being made for higher volatges but uses similar components, PMDC motor design.
I just dont get why they do not make AC powered ones for our kind of boats.
It is a very powerful windless, but all it has is the rope drum. It has very easily pulled the anchor line for years, regardless of how stuck, it will pull without stalling. Has an whole lot of gear reduction and an overrunning one way clutch.
I have the thread over here, had fixed it couple years ago, but it needed new brushes then and I repaired the old brush wires..
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/...fy-this-briggs-straton-electric-motor.112698/
link to the video of it now working again
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nbAezKxN7zKM5Bsp9
this windlass winch is likely from the mid to late 1970's, it has a horizontal drum.
Motor was made by Briggs & Stratton.
The winch is kind of unusual, the motor is DC, but runs off rectified 120vac.
So it runs off 90 vdc power. No need for huge wires, large current flow, huge DC motor, or a windlass battery. The motor is a modified Briggs small engine starter motor.
The armature is wired differently than a starter motor, being made for higher volatges but uses similar components, PMDC motor design.
I just dont get why they do not make AC powered ones for our kind of boats.
It is a very powerful windless, but all it has is the rope drum. It has very easily pulled the anchor line for years, regardless of how stuck, it will pull without stalling. Has an whole lot of gear reduction and an overrunning one way clutch.
I have the thread over here, had fixed it couple years ago, but it needed new brushes then and I repaired the old brush wires..
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/...fy-this-briggs-straton-electric-motor.112698/
link to the video of it now working again
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nbAezKxN7zKM5Bsp9
this windlass winch is likely from the mid to late 1970's, it has a horizontal drum.
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