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I have heard horror stories about vandals doing bad things with winches on parked vehicles. So whenever I install a winch the first thing in the power circuit is a 500 amp continuous duty relay. One side of the relay is hooked to the battery and the other is hooked to the winch controller. On the Tremor I used an up-fitter switch as a winch enable to activate the relay sending power to the winch controller. Also, although the installation instructions that come with the winch say connect it to the passenger (main) battery, I connected to the auxiliary battery instead.
To activate the winch requires that you have the key on so no vandal can hook your winch line over the top to your rear bumper and use their controller to reel it in.
To activate the winch requires that you have the key on so no vandal can hook your winch line over the top to your rear bumper and use their controller to reel it in.