Inverter Cooling Fan Not Working

If the cooling fan is not able to maintain a temperature cool enough for safe working the inverter will shut off automatically or it will give out an audible alarm to inform you that the device needs to be turned off.

Inverter cooling fan not working.

Always exercise extreme caution when working around live components. If the cooling fan does not work properly then the inverter gets shut off. There are reasons that the fan may have got stuck due to many reasons. After powering my freezer tv and standing fans i realised the inverter fan is not rotating moving which will definitely damage the inverter.

The advantage to this type of fan option is that the no load draw is generally much lower when the inverter does not have a load applied. So the inverter will not get cold air and you get the alarm. You find very rare instances of this kind of inverter problems and. Every inverter has a cooling fan which needs to run as long as the unit is operating.

In some inverters you can hear the alarm. This is nice for applications where you are running a momentary. 120 volt electricity is lethal. Do not install a 12 volt component in a 120 volt circuit.

Computer stores sell fans which look very similar to the converter cooling fan but the computer units are for 12 volt circuits. I would have loved to return it but the cost of. This is a rare occasion. They only operate while a load is applied to the inverter.