alternator upgrade winch and battery

evening all my cheapo winch blow up today

what winch is the best these days and what set up have you guys got ie split charge twin batt etc

thanks for your in put

Goodwinch TDS 9.5c. Great service from Goodwinch and excellent which.

Better get one good battery than 2 cheap ones.

What's your budget.

got a yellow top in the standard place with 480cca i think

what alernator up grades are out there

I have a 250A splitcharge system Jimnybits tray and I robbed a near new battery from the wifes freelander2 which is brilliant and just fits!

All my non-essentials are now running of the 2nd battery and only the engine/lights etc run from the original battery which I upgraded to the best sensible money can buy (Bosch S4)

I have a nifty little switch which overrides the split charge and manually connects the two batteries together so I can use this if I need some extra umph to start the engine...

Problem I have now is with two winches, two batteries and a whole heap of heavy duty cables and electrical bits its starting to look like a power station under my bonnet!

suzuki jimny fella wrote: got a yellow top in the standard place with 480cca i think

what alernator up grades are out there

If it's a true Optima Yellow top it's around 700CCA.

Optima Red tops are better for winching, but now you've already got a Yellow top, best just to get another one.

If you want twin batteries mainly for winching, forget about split charging relay. Waste of money.

I run a twin motor Warn 8274, twin batteries, standard alternator, doing winch challenges. We do lots of long pulls with the winch. And not once have I every had trouble cranking the engine due to low battery power.

Instead, if you get a TDS 9.5c winch or any other of decent quality. You may want to consider a Goodwinch Turbo controller for the winch. Greatly increases pulling power and speed

Regaring alternator, is it necessary with a bigger one?
I'm considering different options. Also just getting an extra standard Jimny alternator. This way you have some redundancy if one of them fails.

Tomdk
Have u just joined the 2 battery's together as I have to battery's but the one in my boot is just run to my winch for power and it has to be charged up before I use it was like that when I bought it i was just looking at one of them split chargers or is there a different way cheers Chris