The Boo Dog Winch- a production electric winch.

wakeboarderx03x · Posted: Apr 12, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject:

Sooo....
What's under the hood????

Sagittorious · Posted: Apr 12, 2011 8:48 pm Post subject:

Only bad thing is not all winch spots have a power outlet.......Sorry for being a......

The_BooDog_Winch · Faceplant Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 19 City: Gnarlyville

No downer, you have a battery pack. No outlet out side your house required. Ride all day , no gas, no noise, no worries.

As far as under the hood, an electric boogie of sorts.

We should have a new casing design in a few days, but we all know that the exterior box is aesthetic.

More questions. This is R&D right here.

Suggestions, criticism , thread hijacks, all post welcome!

Sagittorious · Posted: Apr 12, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject:

whats the ride time per charge? Sorry thought I saw an extension cord in your vid Question

The_BooDog_Winch · Faceplant Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 19 City: Gnarlyville

You saw the chord from the battery to the winch

It will pull a 4 hr set. Not a contest (back to back riders). Normal winching pace. Thats with the 4 small atv/lawnmower batteries we have going right now. But more batterys (size and quantity) will buy you more shred time. So depending on the final set up Id say a 5 hour life. Which is plenty for a day of winching.

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

How much?

The_BooDog_Winch · Faceplant Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 19 City: Gnarlyville

Battery setup pending, but the winch alone will be cheaper than a plastic gas one Laughing

Gregeo · Guest

POPTART <> I WANNA TRY THAT ! Need a rail out there Birthday

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

We had one

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

The_BooDog_Winch, looks sick!

Guy · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 842 City: Orillia

Props for coming up with innovative solutions.

What's the weight of the winch?

Cool

The_BooDog_Winch · Faceplant Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 19 City: Gnarlyville

The winch weighs about 60-65 pounds. Battery pack isn't set in stone. Anywhere from 40 to 80. Possible less... everything is on wheels for ease of carting around. I suppose we could come up with some ski attachments for it too for snow winching.. The whole set up can fit in the back seat of the car or get thrown in the back of a pick up truck. It should be very transportable...

supermanotorious · Backside 180 Joined: 05 Apr 2010 Posts: 518 City: Phoenix

i think electric winches are great but they've a long way to go, electric motors, regulators, and batteries are expensive and heavy, yes quiet is great

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

the difference is in the pull, when you program your power band its spot on every time, and whats a few extra pounds on wheels, you need two people to winch

robsmaze · Posted: Apr 14, 2011 10:15 am Post subject:

plus there are very few gas powered winches that weigh less than 150 pounds. thats about the same weight as the electric winch...

halt · Faceplant Joined: 05 Dec 2009 Posts: 47 City: sweden...

Nice!
But is it realy necessary to have the spool releaser??, It use to be easy to spin E-motors. If you have a ESC with a regenerating funktion you dont need the hand break.... Anyway good work Smile

Pulldozer · Posted: Apr 17, 2011 4:09 pm Post subject:

That looks really cool, an electric winch is a great idea.

robsmaze · Posted: Apr 17, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject:

Halt, it's not that easy to spin out the motor. But with that in mind, we are going to offer regen braking on the final model. Although we find that a brake is really only necessary in tight spots or when using the winch to pull snowboards. For the most parts, the drag of the water on the handle seems to stop everything once let off the throttle.

Thanks for the props pulldozer!