There are six main types of capstan: the electric capstan, the most common capstan. Rely on the vehicle's own power system drive capstan, advantages: can be basic normal use under the condition of the vehicle fire death (which is its biggest advantage is unmatched by other winch), have very big advantage, especially for water more simple installation can realize location to install and more rapid shift. Faults: unable to maintain a long time to use its power system limitations, its easy to fever (vehicle, etc), most of the electric winch can provide a driving force of the small, only in the direction of a force (installed on the car can only move forward, installed on the back of the back only). Regarding the winch, the use of transfer case output POWER for POWER supply (POWER TAKE OFF), advantages: can continue to provide greater tension, a single long time heating problems (not), can provide more direction tension around (before and after, even), is a military vehicle or serious high-performance off-road best choice. Disadvantages: you must use engine power, which is not available when the engine is unable to work due to water. It is also impossible to use the box when it loses a winch.
The oil pressure capstan USES the vehicle's power/power steering system as the source of its power, using the power steering pump to provide the source power. Advantages: easy installation, because of its external fixed part basically achieved universal, even swap can be realized in the wild, driving force between the motor and the office winch, high temperature occurred extremely rare opportunity. Disadvantages: like regarding the winch, must use the engine driving force, namely must keep engine rotation, and once the power steering system malfunction cannot use (in some cases, off-road power steering system is vulnerable to the outside world). Wheel capstan. This is a relatively new winch system, which is the driver of the wheel shaft. The principle is a fixed winch of four of six fixed screws using most of the off-road wheels. Advantage: to install/remove extremely simple (and the tyres are a step), very light in weight (lighter than every other winch, will not be brought before hanging deadly additional weight), cheap, can provide both before and after tension. Disadvantages: now I know the shortcomings of certainty is due to its power point is the axle, so the position is too low, causing some conditions cannot be used, but also must use the engine power.
Manual capstan, the winch that is driven by the vertical or circular motion of the human hand, the manual winch is usually not very strong because of the manual capstan. The aerodynamic capstan, the same design and working principle of the hydraulic winch, is the force that turns the compressed liquid into a compressed gas. The winch is different for its purposes The winch is divided into: ATV capstan, off-road capstan, truck capstan, industrial capstan, etc. According to the characteristics of some industries, there are also the classification such as water proof winch and flameproof winch.
ATV winch, it is a small winch, pulling force is not big, generally pull up to 4500 pounds, is mainly used in, quad bikes, as well as on a yacht, the large car cannot be used, if the yacht is equipped with ATV, ashore will more easily, just need to find a fixed object, put hooks in, gently hold the remote control, they reached shore. If a four-wheel motorcycle is stuck in a hole, it will be easy to do the same thing.
