Back in my Kodak days we had a few mnemonics that helped us remember the resistor colors. It does indeed help.

Greetings, I like your repair videos, I was a bench tech in my working years, the color code for 10 ohms is: brown-black-black, 1-0- and a multiplier of one (black). Gold is a multiplier of .1 and silver is a multiplier of .01 I learned the color code memory aid in Navy which is very unsuitable to repeat here. James

nice work, keep em coming!

I am benefiting hugely from this since I'm needing a psw inverter in this price range and I tinker, but I'm confused about using teflon instead of tape. I'm going to use paste. When overclocking CPU's (a similar issue of pushing semiconductors to their thermal limit) teflon should be a no no since it's actually an insulator rather than a thermal conductor. We actually isolate stuff with thick bands of it in aerospace RF stuff.

i had a xantrex inverter with irf1404's and one of the fets in that inverter failed it didn't explode like yours but it went short circuit and burnt out the pcb trace and there was a 5.1 ohm resistor that blew out with it which probably saved the control circuitry i have a repair video but i haven't gotten around to posting it yet

Cant wait for tthird and fourth :-)

Could you put the links to part 3 & 4 or all the part of the videos above? Thanks and much appreciate your videos.

The problem is that when I connect the battery does not produce output voltage is kept beep and with flashing light

Just wondering why don't you use a battery powerd screw driver

muy buen vídeo. yo tengo dos inversores similares a ese el mío tiene dos entradas. positivo y negativo. y tiene tres embobinados y tres transformadores. y seis fusibles. y están dañados de lo mismo los dos aparatos. mi pregunta es donde consigo las partes ya que acá en México no los conocen. me falta conseguir. unos transistores MOSFET. IS-15AM. díganme donde los encuentro. se los agradecería.

hello my inverter is model atsiu-2500p has a 20-leg microchip in the opsilacion card it doesn't work for me this bad where I can get it

hey knurlgnar, what is the song that you use for your intros?

That mosfet sure blew it's guts up.

Great video. I'm bidding on a new Accurate 2K/4K watt inverter (Ebay) and it seems that your telling us to avoid this 'Chinese' company. I could get it for less than 100 bucks. I just want to run a vacuum cleaner in my car. Just how bad are these? Can't you drill extra holes for cooling? Maybe do other modifications?

Generally speaking what kind of work do you do for a living?

Also who makes some good inverters ? Thank you

So should I assume that Accurate tools inverters are not worth purchasing ?

Carl Sagan of PC boards.

I use this to remember to the color code, from I was a kid till now.. "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Virgins Give Willingly". So that is black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white.

ahhh... Radio Shack... the good ol' days when they used to sell REAL stuff for the electronics hobbyist.

Thanks, I wont be buying one of them,,