Captain PartyMarty
Crew Member
**** that went bad! Hope your insurance comes thru!
Hi Butcher. What you say is no doubt true for what you have done with your puller but may not be true for running the puller at max loads (110 lbs). 8 AWG will work at max loads & I am sure that at this load the wire will not get hot enough to be of danger, but you will encounter more voltage drop with likely loss of performance as the resistance in the wire increases. The puller is rated to pull 4 traps/110# so for those that wish to use the full capabilities of the puller I present this info.In my opinion you do NOT need anything larger than 8AWG wire. 4AWG is nuts and overkill unless your run is huge like 20ft+. 10 or 8awg with 40 amp fuse is more than adequate. Keep the run as short as possible so locate the scotty female end of the plug as close to the battery as possible while close enough to the scotty mounting base. Ive owned a ace puller and pull 2 prawn traps each with 8-10lbs of added weight in each trap from depths of 300-350ft with multiple sets in an area with extremely fast currents. Have never had a fuse blown even during windy and fast ripping current conditions.
A silly question, how can you tell what gauge wire I have? I'll certainly change the fuse to a 40 amp but need to find out the AWG of the wire currently in place before replacing it to let say a 10 or 8 AWG.
Hi Butcher. What you say is no doubt true for what you have done with your puller but may not be true for running the puller at max loads (110 lbs). 8 AWG will work at max loads & I am sure that at this load the wire will not get hot enough to be of danger, but you will encounter more voltage drop with likely loss of performance as the resistance in the wire increases. The puller is rated to pull 4 traps/110# so for those that wish to use the full capabilities of the puller I present this info.
I went out and soaked my first trap, just one to make sure everything
worked out. I left it for 3 hours and got a few. When I used the Ace Hauler it brought the lead core
rop up but the hollow rope sliped and needed my help to bring it in. Mabye being a new combo rope from
Pacific Net and Twine or new hauler made this happen. So I get back to the launch and put my boat on the trailer,
sinched up tight I got in the truck and moved up the launch. I moved about 20 feet up and heared a loud noise
behind me. I stoped and looked, my bow crank gave up and unreeled, leaving my boat 1/4 on the trailer and the back
in a foot of water. Great, Tide almost high but still coming in, I thought I must remove as much weight from the boat
and hope to recover it to the trailor. After removing most of the stuff, I went to the back to remove the kicker. All of a sudden
the truck moves backwards towards me, Quickly avoiding the boat, trailer, and truck I managed to get out of the way ending
neck deep in the chuck. The launch is steep and there was lots of seaweed on it and wet, the truck sat in spot for 10 min. before it moved so suddenly. The truck hooked up on a rock 1/2 flooded with sea water, leaving it a total write off, a electrical fire started
to add insult to injury. I'm safe and thats what matters.
my two cents.
I run 10 AWG with 40 amp fuses. run aprox 6 feet of wire and have never had a fuse blow.
but im only hauling 2 traps at a time....I thought it was illegal to have 4 traps per string anyways? maybe that's an old rule.
Thanks I was mistakenTwo traps only if you have one end floating to a bouy. More than two traps, you need bouys on both ends of the string.