Anchor winch electrics 

Thanks so much Stu................R.I.P Dottie

Thanks for this important video Stu .. sorry to hear that sad news about your pet . She will rest in peace 🙏

I just got my D-Squad shirt, RIP Dotty. Sorry for your loss Stu.

Sorry to learn about Dotties' passing Stu you become very attached to animals in your life.

"Any day on the water is a good day" sounds like a new T-Shirt. Also perfectly true. Poor Dotty. Sorry for your loss

Welcome to the club Stu. I love doing things twice. It doubles my chances of getting it right the first time. Lol. R.I.P. Dotty.

Sorry to hear about your loss Stu. RIP Dottie.

Sorry about Dottie, I also am glad she was home, we had a cat with cancer and we took her to the vet and we ended up having to let her go there. It broke my heart to see her scared. Your hand seems a lot better. Keep up the good work.

Sorry for your loss Stu, Dotty was a sweet feathered family member.

I love the Finnegans Garage comment. Cheers from Florida, USA.

Howdy Stu from Dallas Texas! “Not for steel” had a tech that didn’t heed the warning after he had borrowed my non-ferrous cutters. He got banned from the shop tools for a week, and he had to replace them. I gave him the old set, he grounded the buggered bit out and had a fine set of electrical cable cutters after that. Bet he didn't cut any more steel cable with them. They learn when it comes out of their own pocket😎

R.I.P. Dotty, you soothed my troubled mind with your clucks many a times, I salute you! Stu, you are so lovely and caring with your chooks, I am sure Dotty went the best way. My condolences! Nice job on the anchor winch, looking forward to seeing it pull actual chain!

I'm glad to see your right hand getting more and more usable again.

this reminds me about talking about a deck, door and window installation that I am doing by myself. A friend said "I can help with that if you need it" and I said "no, Id rather not show you how many things i can overlook and have to redo every 15 min."

Blue Sky - Up - Green Grass - Down

It's good to have a remote control for your anchor winch but another level is a camera forward so you can operate the engine controls while anchoring. Use the main engine to unload the anchor winch.

Sorry for your loss

Godspeed, Dottie.

Sad you lost a friend but few chooks recieve as much love as she did.

Love your videos Stu. Glad to see you are healing and I'm sorry about your loss of Dottie.

Wiring up my boat during my rebuild was actually the most fun part. I enjoyed this video. Thanks Stu!

Man the welding fit nicely between the flammable cabinets. that is a win.

“Every day in the water is a good day”, Stu, you have a T-shirt idea right there :)) Awesome work with Leo!

good to see the hand improving, well for the first half of the video anyway

First time I have seen cable ties being used on actual cables.

My condolences Stu

I thought the closing comment might have been going to be "such is life". And "any day on the water is a good day" fits right in there with "never thought of an hour fishing as wasted". That time spent on or near the water is always good value.

Poor Dotty - so sad to lose an animal. ❤️ Hope you can make the D-squad numbers back up

RIP Dotty, you will be missed the world over xx

Cool episode with more progress. Well done!.. poor Dotty! I hope the rest of D-Squad enjoy the garden.

Aww, poor Dottie. R.I.P.

Sorry about dotti mate. Great video as per usual. Thanks

You know whats funny, I was running 4gauge positive and negative wires on Wednesday and Thursday last week. Half way around the world I was doing very similar work. I just wished I lived in Australia. Lol great video Stu, as always. Take care.

Blue, green, black is what is also used on Mercruiser trim pumps. A easy way to remember the wiring is Blue sky's and Green grass.

blue for up to the sky and the green for down to the grass

Good stuff Stu. RIP Dotty Ingat kuya

Those cables are a lot easier to push thru conduits if you lube them with soapy water

Condolences on Dottie. She sure was a pretty gal! It sux to lose a critter buddy, but it sux worse not to have critter buddies!

RIP Dotty 😢

"OH NO!" pretty much says it all. I have said that (and worse) and done that many times. I always leave a little extra length in the wires because I just know I'm going to have to do some of those connections over again.

Last time i was this early i had a kid 9 months later.

The amount of times I have wired something up and left the base of the gland off, could see it happening as you were doing it 😂

hi stu from scotland , you could spend a lot of $ on the manufactures remote or go to your local 4x4 store and buy one for a 4x4 winch or if you can wait a few days order one from china for very little $ ( a friend orderd one from china £15 so about $30 delivered) keep these vids coming

Sorry for you loss my Man ...

sorry for your loss stu

Great one stu I have a sav winch on my boat too that are a great unit cheers🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

Said it before ill say it again when it comes to running in cables better looking at it than looking for it ...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Three different flames to shrink the heat shrink. Expected some “Dangar Stu expertise” on the wisdom of each method in each case. ;)

Stu it looks like your hands are getting back to normal, "bullet dodged"! RIP Dottie, of the Original D-Squad!!!

I suggest you put petroleum jelly on all contacts and connections. That will effectively slow down corrosion and save you a lot of labor in the long run!

I was shouting at my laptop "STOP STOP STOP" just before you crimped those wires but you obviously didn't hear me :-)

When pulling wires through a conduit, apply a thin coat of glycerin gel to the wires, helps with binding. Is also good for other things. :-)

When pulling cables trough a tight conduit consider spraying the inside of the conduit and some of the cable with silicone spray, it can make huge difference.

I was screaming at the screen lol...I've done this so often yet still forget

Good job a on wiring it up Stu and thanks to your friend helping you. Sorry to hear about you one chicken. She lived a good life. Looking forward to the underwater metal detection👍

Anchors aweigh!

heya mate, sorry about Dotty, sucks to lose one of the family. Keep up the quality content!

Quick tip: When cutting the excess cable ties off always use a set of flush cutters vs regular wire cutters. The ends when cut with wire cutters become as sharp as a razor and when digging around in there next time you’re likely to cut your hands/arms up if not careful. A cheap example are these; Klein Tools D275-5 Lightweight Flush Cutter, Up to 16 AWG, Grips Designed for Tool Control and Heat Treated For Durability www.amazon.com/dp/B000GTMZHG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_XuzfFbXA03KG1

You guys would have got a job on "Russell Coights All Aussie Adventures".

Sorry to hear about Dotty... condolences Stu...

I strongly !!!! suggest you put the cables in Anaconda insulated flex pipe given offshore conditions

I seriously like your new blue frames for your new eye glasses. They look really smart for you. Nice look. Enjoyed this video too very much.

Aww poor Dottie 😢

"That's not a knife" is what was thinking as you got the Stanley knife out... (with an Australian accent, of course).

So sorry about Dottie...I lost my Pepper (cat) today too...bad all around for critters.

use this Standard Open Slot Wire duct and it works very well

Find a Dollarydoo Shop that sells poly measuring cups with a 'hanging tab', cut a couple of notches in the edge and screw it down over those exposed battery lugs inside the hatch. That should keep it safe until you can make up a more solid cover...

Well Done Stu.

I was screaming at you.....The caps!!!!

Literally everyone watching was shouting at the screen watching you crimp those winch motor tails 😂 the joys

Glad Dottie had a good life and leave on her terms . Always sad loosing an animal

I have heard there is a Marine grade of cable with the conductors being either Tin or Silver plated wire which is better for corrosion resistance vs bare copper. Like the videos.

Well done Stu John

always good stuff! thanks also love the new shirts

Nice.

The number of times I've forgotten to thread the heat shrink in before connecting. Sorry about Dotti 😢

Would love to see a crossover ep with Finnegan someday!

I'm bereft! Well I suppose you could have a vindaloo now to ease the pain - a parting gift.

Hey Stu, great video mate. That winch sure sounds like it has a heap of grunt and was fun watching you guys sorting through and wiring it up. Sorry to hear about Dotty, not a bad old chook, will be missed. Condolences mate. Anyway, looks like you hands still improving, so much so you forget its damaged and push the limits on it. Still got to treat it gentle mate. Ok, cheers for now, see you next week... ;-}

You can use rubbing alcohol as a lube to get your cables pulled.

I have those same quick strippers (15:50 mark). One of my favorite tools I have. Saves so much time.

RIP Dotti

Sorry about Dottie. She was my favorite of the three if only because of her beautiful feathers.

I’m glad it’s not just me that fs up.

17:00 you are missing a -ive wire from solenoid post to centre of the 3 controller terminals. It's shown in diagram at 19:11 I suspect that's why the motor only turned one way at first.

Bet I was one of many shouting "Don't forget the GROMMETS" !!!! ... we've ALL made that mistake!

Forgot to put the heatshrink on eh - i did the same thing when fitting led lights to my boat trailer except i did it 3 bloody times in a row ! My excuse was i had a big night on the cans !

@10:31 Boy do I know that feeling....Like making a perfect copper flare and then you realize you forgot to put the flare nut on first..... :(

Omg......one of my favourite sayings

I had to come find this part of the video 22:00 so sorry to hear about Dot. Our Dotty got sick as well about the same time but she pulled through. Ours was a bit low on calcium and magnesium. Gave her a bath in warm bath salts and she pulled through. Sorry once again.

Maybe because this is a Fast Fall System, I don't have much experience in marine stuff, the spool will move only when you have anchor weight on it and that's why it won't move down but it will apply a field to the motor to make it not resist the pull of the anchor? The way you might have it wired now is Power UP and Power Down and that may not be how this winch should be wired to make it a Fast Fall Winch???? O yeah I am right, now that I think about it, in the schematic the power is going to the down connection, this way when you push the button down and the anchor drops and spins the motor the current generated by the pull of gravity is fended off by the power supplied by the battery, and the result is a free spinning spool down. Basically pushing the down button loosens the spool and keeps it lose but does not move it. In order for you to test it's true design performance you need the rope and anchor on the spool, cheers!

Looks like you could use a couple bus bars to consolidate your battery cables

Sorry to hear about Dotty. Definitely better that she died comfortable at home as you say...always very hard to lose an animal though.

ooo new glasses?

Sorry to hear about Dottie, my friend.

So sorry for the sad news about dottie I know she will be missed but shes not wanting for nothing now mate

good work man👍🏼👍🏼⚓️ keep going on and up 💪🏻 still watching you from kuwait 😁

I have a question. Was there a reason why you did not take the peckerhead off the motor and replace the stub lead with a direct connection, rather than add an additional connection by splicing the wire on the open deck?

I know you make your living from this but you NEED to take it easy and let you hand heal more .

Sorry about the D squad. Love the winch tho.