(Electric Motor running)
- Hi. I'm Paul from Paul's Fishing Systems.
And I'm here today to talk about our new winch.
This is a powerful winch.
It's got a 230 watt motor,
It's got a very robust cast spool on it.
And it's on a 5 mm alininium frame.
This winch is ideal for pulling in
big kite or kontiki rigs,
doesn't matter how much weed you've got,
sharks or whatever.
This winch will pull it in.
You might be wondering where the motor is.
Well, we've put the motor inside the drum.
That keeps it out of the way,
Of getting sand or water spray in it.
And this is it. The gear box is a planetary gear box.
Which is the most efficient that you can have.
We've got nylon rollers all around the perimeter.
And inside the drum, we've got a nylon bush.
This rubber seal stops any sand or
water spray getting inside.
And if any water does go down, it'll
just drain out of the bottom.
It's really easy to change spools.
Really easy to take it apart.
Put it together. If you're going to run it out,
You just have that in freewheel position.
And this pin locks it in place, ready to hold.
Just pop it in like that.
If you run the battery flat,
you just remove this pin, replace it with the handle,
and that allows you to easily recover the gear
in the case of a flat battery.
This part's the ratchet.
If you're a kite fisherman, and you want
to stop the gear any way that's not quite
full distance there, you just lock it in place
like that. That'll hold it solid.
For recovery, it's got a two position switch.
One for just hauling in the line from a long distance there.
The second if you are using a conventional
kontiki long line or a kite long line.
It's got a pulse switch, so you can just pulse
between choices.
For those that have a ShoreThing,
There are two long bolts that are left on the
winch frame for putting your hook section
and your recovery post on.
This pops on there really easily.
And before you know it, you're ready to
put the hook section back on.
This reel's got 2000 metres of 100 KG line on it.
It's got a really small footprint as you can see.
It's the most compact winch on the market.
So it's the most powerful and it's the smallest.
And it' just so easy to strip apart.
If you've got two rigs and you want to change reels,
nothing could be easier. Beautiful system of rollers,
We've connected this ammeter, to show how
electrically efficient this rig is.
Most of the other winches have about
150 watt motors.
And really, that's jut not enough.
Particularly if you are kite fishing,
or you've got a whole pile of weed.
What happens is the motors heat up.
They become less and less efficient
and before you know it, you've blown your motor out
or you've blown the fuse.
So, when the thing is in the on position,
it draws very little. About the same as a normal winch.
As it starts getting under load,
it builds up a lot more slowly than 150 watt motor.
That would be an extreme load,
I'm grabbing the sides of the reels here,
about as hard as I can.
I don't think I could stall it,
and as you can see, the amp draw is minimal.
Do that with a 150 watt motor, and
you'll see it surging possibly as high as 40 amps.
This is a really efficient rig.