windless and trim tabs

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H Guys,

New to me is my 2019 R23. Getting ready to get her in the water and wasn't successful at getting both the trim tabs and windless to operate in my driveway. I have both the engine and house switches on and checked the fuses of each. In looking at the schematic it seems they should operate w/o the engine running.

The dash rocker switch illuminates with the windless but it doesn't seem to operate.

Am I missing something with both of these items?

jim
 
Jim. The windless breaker is inside the box attached to the wall in the head. Check to see if the breaker switch has been tripped and it is on. I’m not sure but you may need to have the ignition switch on, but not running the engine, to power the trim tabs. Hope this helps.
Karl
 
Thanks Karl,

I did find the breaker in the head area and it seems not to be tripped. I read the manual on the windless and it seems straight forward. It's pulled really tight so I would like to find a way to just spin the motor a bit...

jim
 
You mention above the House and engine battery switches are on but do not mention the thruster batter switch. I don’t know about the R23 but on our R27 the Windlass is powered by the thruster battery. Have you tried turning the thruster battery switch on?

Curt
 
Do the deck foot switches work? You may be able to get some slack by pulling up the control arm and using the special wrench that came with the windless to free up some line.
Karl
 
Deck switches don't work as well. I'll see if I can get the motor to turn by hand...
 
I had this problem on our R29. I found the wiring harness in the chain locker going to the underside of the windlass and unwrapped all the "protective" plastic. The factory connection was in that harness and the crush connectors were a corroded mess. I had enough wire to cut it back and recrimp with heat shrink connectors. The windlass did fail years later and that time the motor had failed. Easy fix and the motor was reasonable. Two places you can check.
 
On my 2018 C24 the windless stopped working within a year. It was only used one time during that period. The motor failed but was covered under warranty.
KKRCRACE
 
During the SWF rendezvous I did some troubleshooting on a R23 that had a failed windless. The owner said it worked a couple times slow and then failed to work at all. The troubleshooting consisted of battery voltage check at battery (good) Battery voltage at the breaker located in the head area. (good) Battery voltage across the breaker (good) Battery voltage at the windless motor checked at the terminal connections outside the windless in the locker (good)
Note: Fluid Motion needs to make the wiring connections with more length. There was very little slack in the wire for troubleshooting and replacement of the windless.

After all troubleshooting was completed I advised that the windless motor was bad.The owner was going to order a new windless from the manufacturer and see if it would be under warranty. The boat was a 2019 R23.


A different R23 was having issues with the trim tabs. When trouble shooting this. The start was to determine if the wire connection from the electric trim tab to the boat wire harness was made properly . (good) The next check was to se if there was voltage going to the trim tab when the selector switch at the helm was activated. I unplugged the trim tab actuator harness and checked voltage at the boat harness. No voltage. We worked our way up to the helm. There was 12V power going to the switch at the helm but no power going out. Troubleshooting it was determined that the switch at the helm was bad. I have heard from others complaints about the Lenco helm switches failing to operate.

Basic troubleshooting will help you understand how the systems are installed and where the 12 V power is being supplied. It will also help you find the cause of the failed operation of the system. It may just be not powered up properly by you, an issue in the wiring or a failed component.
 
Thanks Brian. Let me do some voltage measuring.

Jim
 
Well, I manually released the tension on the windless and spun the motor manually a bit....than it worked. The windless was under lots of tension so not sure if that was it or the motor had a dead spot but it seems to work now.

Thanks everyone for the help.

jim
 
SUCCESS!
 
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