Could use some help diagnosing broken windlass

[Talbot]

I had a problem with my winch a couple of years ago. No movement using either deck switches or remote control. I had a similar problem previously that I had traced to a defective solenoid, so out came the tester. The trouble was I seemed to have 12v everywhere. Eventually it was traced to a very bad connection on the solenoid, that allowed a trace of 12v, but was not allowing any useable ampage through.
Remade the connection and winch worked fine.

[Taniwha_Aotea]

In my experience,
If your solenoid is clicking than an easy definitive check is to jumper lead a battery direct to the motor terminals (disconnected) and see if it works.

If it doesn't work its a motor issue(brushes/coil).
if it does then its either your connections/solenoid/circuit breaker.
clean/jumper/bypass through a spare, to test.
above worked for me.

Only issue i can see with doing above is that the motor may work fine without a load on it and that may not be the case when under load.