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I had thought about that but figured that the winch would draw too much current for that wire so I ran seperate wires from the battery & used an electric forklift battery connector.
I had thought about putting a car battery on the trailer & use it for the break away & the winch. But was still unsure about current draw with the winch under load & that 12ga wire or less running through the factory harness.



On my open trailer I have a hot wire going back but
the winch is small... never gave me any problems,
my big trailer I have a battery inside with the hot
line to it... I'm going to change the way I wired
it and go through a relay so when I shut off the key
it opens that circuit... I was having issue of a
draw in the trailer and it would kill my truck batteries
after a week or so if I left the trailer plugged in
but I found that the trailer battery had a short in it