12k# HF Winch Circuit Breaker?

[cj7zrcool]

I have a Harbor Freight Badlands 12K# winch that I'm wiring up for my truck. It will be in a removable receiver mount cradle and I have made cords with 1/0 wire and quick disconnects to run to the front and rear of the truck. The problem is that there is very little room under the hood of a 2019 F350 6.7 for auxiliary battery connections, so I was going to mount a self contained circuit breaker under the hood, then to a terminal block, on the side wall instead of using the long, unshielded circuit breaker that came with the winch. My question is which size do I need? 200 amp, 300 amp...? I can find no amperage reference anywhere in the winch manual. Help, electrical gurus.

[muzzlebrake]

Approx 500 amp at full load.

[cj7zrcool]

500 amps? So would I need something like this instead?

[dclifton]

I would use some king of resettable breaker and not a fuse link. I suspect you may trip the 500amp one if you bog it down hard.

If your not 100% sure call warn technical seriveces or something tell them your trying to wire up one of their 12K winches and see what they say.

[rvd]

I'm electronically challenged but Warn customer service has been very helpful for me in the past.