Fried Inverter

[Xyrax]

Anyone ever have this happen to them? I noticed my two 4" cold cathodes weren't on. I checked all the connections and they were fine so I decided to check the iverter. I disconnected it and took a wiff and knew right away it was fried so I opened it and this is what I found. Luckily I had a spare inverter lying around.

(sorry for crappy quality. Only camera I have is on my cell hpone)

Now I'm nervous somethings wrong with my wiring. Hopefuly it was just a faulty inverter.

 

[plot]

what's the voltage rating/current rating of the inverter? might not be able to handle the load.

 

[theshadow27]

thos caps are on the output side of the board... are your lamp wires shorted, either together or to the case?

 

[Troney1169]

LOL I have done this before but it was me being stoopid. I decided to try to hook up an old CCL to the power plug in my car but I wasn't thining properly and it blew the cap on the inverter. Both my girfriend and I were in the car when it happened but i took a papertowel roll and had the inverter inside it incase something did blow. All I forgot to do was put a resistor on it. oh well it was just sitting on a shelf gathering dust.

 

[Xyrax]

No shorts. It was only a couple weeks old so there isn't any wear in the insulation on the wires.

I'm thinking it was just a faulty cap since the one lead of the cap was completely gone. Burnt to nonexistance. So I'm thinking the capacitor probably shorted out internally.

I also noticed on the underside of the board, the 2 pads that cap was soldered too had very little solder causing a unreliable connection.

I thoroughly checked my wiring to be safe and found no problems. I'll just keep an eye on it for the next week or so.