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can i cut the ringlets off my kfi 4500 lb winch and attach a 3 way connect harness to the pulse bar an my ranger 1000 crew cab
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No I don’t believe the Pulse bar is any where near the rating for the draw of a winch! Pulse bar is advertised to supply 40amp accessory, 4500 lb winch pulls North of 225 amps.
ok so I have a different question can I only attach the keyed ignition wire to the connecter and cap the positive and negative wires?

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ok so I have a different question can I only attach the keyed ignition wire to the connecter and cap the positive and negative wires?
Yes, that won't be an issue.
Yes, that won't be an issue.
ok thanks for your help
Just keep in mind you are amp limited. I would not hook up two large loads on it. A light and the switch light for the key will be fine.
You should be just fine powering the heavy gauge red to the buss bar battery feed under the red protective boot and the heavy black to the ground stud below the pulse bar. Those will feed the contactor and your three pin connector ignition terminal on the pulse bar feeds the in cab control. After all the factory polaris ones connect there if added on afterwards.
ok thanks for the help.
I installed the rocker switch and the auxillery outlet and the rocker switch lights up so I know its getting power but when I press it in or out it does nothing, but when I use the aux cord it clicks when pressed out and does nothing when pressed in. why does the contactor make a clicking noise? please help
Post some pics of your installation please. That will likely help in troubleshooting your issue.
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I think I might have figured it out by looking at kfi's website and I am not at my workshop right now but if I still have issues tomorrow I will send pictures for sure. I think I misconnected the control wires. The black line is what I think I did.
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Winch wiring is confusing if you're thinking of standard wiring with red and black as positive and negative. With a winch: black and green are in and out and red is ignition (or batt if you wire it that way). If you are using a lighted switch you will need to run a separate ground wire to the switch.

Standard on-off-on momentary switch for winch is: 1 and 4 to out (or in if needed reversed direction), 2 and 5 to ignition power (or battery if key off use is needed), 3 and 6 to in (or out if needed reversed direction), and 7 to ground.

Your image above shows a handlebar mounted rocker (like what is used on an atv) which are usually not lighted so no ground wire is present (or needed). It also shows a wired remote, and I'm not sure why the extra black lines are drawn on there. But if you need extra controls, they just need wired in parallel. So, they would need wired the way it originally shows, all the greens go together and all the blacks go together.

Just a final reminder to not confuse the black wire of the winch controls with the black ground wire of the pulse bar (or any ground that is).
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i am using a switch panel on a ranger 1000 I am only using this diagram because it was the closest and best one I could find.
I got everything working I just had to check all the wiring a match it to the kfi resource
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