Hi Jim,
One of the better manufacturer sites giving some insight into the
choices available to you for a given job at hand is the Dutton-Lainson
Company <http://www.dutton-lainson.com/categories.php?cat=15>. They
offer electric, brake, worm-gear & pulling winches, along with a host of
spare parts and a 5 year warranty on most winches. If you click on a
given winch at the site, a comparison table is available to you. The
table can and will change, given the type of winch selected for comparison.
http://www.dutton-lainson.com/categories.php?cat=15
73,
Jon Pearl - W4ABC
www.w4abc.com
On 2/3/2014 10:47 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
'XK makes a very important point.. most winches do not have a brake,
since they're used for dragging something horizontally. If power fails
or you turn off the winch or the gears break, the load just sits there
and the cable goes a bit slack.
Hoists usually have an internal brake or are geared such that they can
hold the load with no power. (although I have had some, shall we say,
exciting moments with a set of 110VAC hoists that didn't hoist all at
the same rate, so the loads didn't distribute evenly)
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