on a lighter note i nipped down to argos half an hour ago and bought a black and decker 400w inverter with a 2 year guarantee for £13.99 !!! less than half price/from a proper shop/2yr guarantee. it works a treat too.
Thats cheap , might get me sen one
you'll have to buy one off me Mark.i have just bought all the remaining worldwide stock and you can't have one until you turn my avatars hair back to the right colour you git!
1664 wrote:Sorry Ben but unless there is something obvious like a detached wire, burnt out pcb track or smoldering chip you're into the realms of investigation at componant level which requires specialist knowledge and equipment....
yes,go on Bren i'm learning.keep going....
ok...
1. Have any wires become detached?
2. Have any pcb tracks burnt out or broken?
3. Is there any blackened, charred or fish smelly componants?
Failing the above you're going to need a specialist with the necessary electronic chip/componant knowledge and equipment such as an oscilloscope (oh, and a wad of banknotes).
cheers Bren.there are a couple of funny smells coming from it actually!! i've taken a couple of close-up pictures and will post them up shortly.hopefully you can see if anything is wrong? cheers Ben
Are you using underrated cables to connect it? - A bit like using Webasto and Eberspacher heaters with underrated cables leads to a voltage drop thus no worky righty. Check out the terminals are soldered properly/crimped tight/screwed on tight.
quagmire wrote:here's a pick of the internals Bren: what do you think could be the problem?? l
Looks like a couple of the beans may have baked. The chips look fine but the twists have obviously been cooked. The fish smell will probably be the tuner.......
You'd probably be better off chucking it at Andy as he used to fix T.V's and the like didn't he? I did get an electronic qualification but that was back in the 80's and I haven't had sod all to do with electronics since (plus I don't possess any equipment more complicated than a basic Avometer).
hehehe!!i'll do that Bren,just not sure if i can trust Andy not to spill alcohol all over it at a show.i'll have to get him up very early in the morning indeed.cheers Ben
I bought a 350w inverter from Argos last year for £20 and it too made the horrid squealing noise. Nothing was plugged into it. This was when engine was both stopped and running. Noticed that when engine was running, and then switched inverter on, engine note dropped slightly due to the increased load on the alternator, indicating a big current being drawn... I didn't have more than about 10 seconds to ponder this however as it caught fire! Needless to say I took it back and got a refund (having lost faith in the product, and not wanting to fork out on the more expensive brand).
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Good god man....how many times do I have to tell you....
PENNE Pasta....not those shoddy northern spirals...no wonder it curled up and died.
Those beans look suspiciously pale too.....aldi's finest perchance?
If it makes you feel better, when we came back off holiday in Jan the boat plumbing had frozen and fractured, leaving my 2kw pure sine-wave inverter sat in 4 inch of water for days...that too was knackered!
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Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Just managed to reserve one at the Grantham branch. 
thats frightening mate!