How Not to Install an Inverter

[DBK]

This is from Twitter. Don't worry if you can't see it, I'll explain what it shows. Some loon decided to fit an inverter in their car. They did it correctly using heavy duty cables connected directly to the battery However, instead of feeding the cables through the bulkhead to reach the car interior from the engine bay they chose a more imaginative route. The cables come out from under the bonnet around a bit of the front wing then in through the gap between the car door and the body where the hinges are.

Bad cable routing! Heavy duty short circuit results and local fire brigade called out.

Of course a fuse at the battery end of the positive cable would have prevented the fire - and I speak as someone who almost fitted an inverter with the fuse at the wrong end of the cable until Lenny HB spotted this schoolboy error.

 

[chaser]

It appears to be in America so what would you expect?

 

[DBK]

It appears to be in America so what would you expect?

Indeed, I even thought I should call the bonnet the hood.

 

[cyberyacht]

"almost fitted an inverter with the fuse at the wrong end of the cable"

The fuse was at the right end, the connections were at the wrong end. - Eric Morecambe

 

[busbuddy]

It is the same way chavs used to wire amplifiers in the boot, spend all the money buying the correct parts and cables but fit them through the door gaps and over seat runners

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[Richard n Ann]

It is the same way chavs used to wire amplifiers in the boot, spend all the money buying the correct parts and cables but fit them through the door gaps and over seat runners

And in a few years they'll be working on cars and Motorhomes for a living

 

[DBK]

"almost fitted an inverter with the fuse at the wrong end of the cable"

The fuse was at the right end, the connections were at the wrong end. - Eric Morecambe

Brilliant!