Greetings geniuses. I once again need some guidance.

Long story short I have an electric anchor on my kayak and I need bi-directional control from two (three) different switches.

Winch came with a dpdt switch for back and forward operation. However, the winch is mounted at the bow of my 14 foot kayak and I needed remote switching. I disabled that switch and installed 2 momentary pushbutton switches in an h bridge configuration. You guys and gals helped me with that 3 years ago. Original post is here. I'm happy to report that the switches work fine even after a thousands of activations.

Someone suggested that having both switches would come in handy and they were right. I've gotten my anchor hung up on brushpiles and rockpiles several times. Had to go to the bow and jiggle the rope to get it free. Now I want to make both switches operate the motor. I've rewired the dpdt and it works properly. Now I just need to know how to connect the two momentary switches to control the motor as well.





Here are the schematics for both controls. Cables run from the battery at the back of the boat to the bow. Currently it's a 2 conductor cable. I guess I could just run a second cable through the momentary switches and to the motor but I'm not sure that is the best way.

Can you suggest a proper way to merge both sets of controls?

 

You could wire the additional switches in parallel.
Just don't operate more than one switch at a time, or you will zap something.

For that you likely will have to run another cable for the switch at the bow of the boat.

 

You could wire the additional switches in parallel.
Just don't operate more than one switch at a time, or you will zap something.

For that you likely will have to run another cable for the switch at the bow of the boat.

So, given I've taken the h bridge out of the circuit and rewired the dpdt, I could just take the existing wiring that already ran through the h bridge and just wire to the motor, correct? That would essentially be wired in parallel?

 

I could just take the existing wiring that already ran through the h bridge and just wire to the motor, correct? That would essentially be wired in parallel?

Yes.
Just make sure all the polarities are correct.