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Old 07-20-2019, 12:06 PM   #5
healhustler
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Gmarr is right. I don’t know what series Lewmar you have, but some of the contactors/solenoids are prone to failure and can give voltage readings without necessary amperage. Pictured below is the solenoid for the 1000 Sport Fish unit with free-fall. They’re cheap crap. After two failures, I put in a 20 year old Simpson Lawrence solenoid and no solenoid issues since. One other thing. I had the same problem you described about two years ago on my own Lewmar windlass. Voltage showed fine but now power to pull. It was actually a corroded circuit breaker that was passing just enough current to show voltage, but couldn’t pass the amps. With electrical, you never know.
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