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it's time for mechanics Monday, welcome to my new segment mechanic Monday, every
Monday I'll be getting back to you guys by hosting a giveaway, where I'll be giving
away tools and Auto products that I've tested out, and today's giveaway is this
1000 watt power inverter, now it might be raining outside, but that isn't going to
stop me from giving stuff away, and still explaining how things work, power
inverter does one thing, it's a transformer that changes voltage from
one to another one that you need, in this case, it takes a 12-volt power of a car
battery, and transforms it into a hundred and twenty volts, so it can run power
tools, or laptop computers, this quality unit has 220 volt receptacles, and also
two USB ports, so you can use it to charge up your phones too in a pinch, now
when you do get a power inverter, you want a good one like this, this one's
heavy, a lot of metal in it, and it has two cooling fans, one in the front and
one in the back, you got to have that so they don't overeat, because in the
process of transforming electricity different voltages, there is some heat
given off, so you got to have one that has good cooling units built into it, now
this particular one was 65 bucks, and it's a thousand watts, you also have to
realize your power usage, if you want more, you can get a 1,500 one for like 86
dollars, if you're going to use a lot of power, you get a little bit heavier one, you
don't want to buy a really cheap one and try to overuse it or it'll melt, make
sure the unit is fused, this baby has four separate fuses, it's a serious
machine, it's not just some piece of junk that's got one little fuse to do the
whole thing, which is going to blow all the time, now most guys they like portability,
so they just get one of these, use the clamps that go on the battery, then they
can use it whenever they want, and if you're doing serious long-term work,
start the car, and then guess what, your car is now
turned into a generating station, and it's making power and you can run it as
long as you want, in this case the alternator is generating 12 volts, that's
charging up the battery, then the battery send in 12 volts to the power inverter,
which can turn into 120 volts, and drive all your appliances, this thing is rated
high enough, it even runs my electric chainsaw, if you want you, could wire
permanently to the car, it has good connectors here, you just get wiring and
you'd wire negative to the negative battery terminal, and positive to the
positive battery terminal, just realize you need to use really thick gauge
wiring, because there's a lot of power in this you, could wire that right inside
the vehicle and then mount it wherever you want, but most guys, they like the
portability having a clamps, then they can take it wherever they want and
running off of any car or truck battery, and if they need a lot of time just
leave the engine running, as you can see, it's got really nice solid mounting
brackets, so you could mount it wherever you want, but me, I like the portability
of this, I can put it in any car any trip anytime I need it, just clamp it in and
away you go, so if you're looking to get a 120 volt power out of your car or truck,
now you know how an inverter works, and remember to have a chance to win these
tools, just post a nice clean non-offensive comment in the YouTube
comments below, and the winner will be picked randomly by a computer,
and since entropy is the end state of all matter, that's a fair way to pick a
winner,
thanks for watching this video and good luck in the contest, so if you never want to miss
another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell!