smoking inverter

[Jason Wilkinson]

Hi to all. Am i lucky or is it fate?  Tonight i somehow missed and connected  and switched on a small 700w 12 volt inverter reversed polarity to a 24 volt batt.After about a minute   there was a loud "pop" and smoke came out on every side."my goodness, i've lost my inverter now"  i opened it,looked in saw no signs of physical damaged,no burnt smell, after about 1/2 hour  i connected it (right was this time ) and would you believe it worked!! Fate or luck?

    jason

[RUFUS]

I'd say it probobly aint gonna

work for very much longer,

usally popping and emitting

magic smoke dose not bode well

for any major appliance,

it was a good read anyway

                     Rufus

[Mary B]

Look at where the power leads connect to the circuit board. There was probably a reverse connection diode that is now cracked in half. I would replace it because it is cheap insurance against the occasional oops.

[Devo]

I have smoked about 5 cheapy invertrs from a bad connection on my Battery bank, the voltage goes to high & poof the magic is gone, they all worked after but for a very short time.

I would get a back up your probably going to need it.

Devo