wrote:
I am back to pulling the warrior back into the hanger with a winch. I

I've used a constant speed winch to pull a 172 uphill over ice etc into
a previous hangar with maybe 24" tip space on each side. It had a long
cable (actually nylon rope) and a single direction switch but it was
not a very good feeling task as the winch was fixed direction, constant
speed, & controlled with an ON-OFF switch - to maybe 6 inches/sec.

The good thing was that the winch drum could be released from the drive
so that the rope could be quickly manually played out.

Do you really need 14 ga wire? much less all four conductors? That is
good for 20 amps pushing things for intermittent duty.

Is your winch motor synchronous or is it a universal motor/ (might it
be 12V even?) Universals are nice in that the speed can be controlled
with an SCR box. I couldn't figure out what winch you are looking at
at HF.

nrp