[TowerTalk] Fulton 2500 winch single or dual speed?

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 4/3/2014 1:50 PM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC wrote:

> So there you have it.  By design the self-locking worm gear is very
> inefficient causing some frictional heating but it's also easy on the
> muscles and stops where you leave it.  If used properly and under low
> duty cycles such as that of raising or lowering tower sections, one
> would think that this winch set would work well.

> Jon Pearl - W4ABC
> www.w4abc.com
>

When I replaced my K2550 with a KW3000, the amount of effort
to raise the tower approximately doubled.  The amount of effort
to lower it was about the same as the K2550.  After a few years
of use, the KW3000 started to make squealing noises.  That was
my experience, YMMV.

Rick N6RK