 My name is Chris Jacobs, I'm the creator of Vallejo Historic Home Support. Today we're talking about backup power supply or backup power sources You could use if for example PG news to turn your power off during wildfire season Next up on the list is a power inverter What a power inverter does it takes DC current it turns it into AC current This one's designed specifically to hook up to your car So you put these guys on your car battery. We're going to talk about the exact order of how to do that And then it turns the car batteries DC power into AC you can plug into it with it on and And you'll have basically powered and maybe charge your phone or some other purpose This one here happens to be a 750 watt power inverter In the links for the video, we're gonna have I'll put two on there I'll put a 300 and something around a 500 I'll select 750 is a lot for a car Even with the engine running you're probably gonna kill that battery. It's not gonna. It's not gonna make it I mean I use this on my car, but I don't pull 750 off and I pull a lot a lot a lot less so Okay on the back Anytime when we're dealing with DC or really even if we're dealing with electricity at all We want to make sure we have really good connections. So make sure these are firmly attached and the rule with DC is That you attach the positive first the red first And then you attach the black last if there's any other attachments you attach the black last With many people are familiar with AC power in their house and AC power usually has a black wire and a white wire the black wire is the hot the positive The white wires the neutral with AC you attach the neutral first that way the power has somewhere to go It keeps you getting shocked With DC it's it's the inverse the black is the neutral and the red is the hot And you want to attach the hot first because you don't want to this can arc this if this was if if a battery was attached Without the positive being attached to the battery you can create a spark. So that's what we're trying to do Just slightly safe. Okay, so you attach it to your car Red first black second Make sure the inverter is off It's critical because you don't want to be pulling power while you're trying to attach it again You're gonna make a spark make an arc turn your car on do not run this with your car on Turn your car on turn it on turn the inverter on if you put a Extension cord do this and run it in your house It can't do more power Then then what it inverts. So take take a look at what you're trying to run You're trying to run a coffee maker. That's 800 watts. This is 750 it can serve There's two things. There's continuous power and surge power. This can surge up to 1500 But it can't maintain it for long and more importantly your car is not going to maintain This is really ideal again for charging cell phones for charging laptops charging your electronics Interesting enough. I just talked about this one in the last video. I Put this on my counter. I plug my stove into it because my stove doesn't work without a little bit of electricity This is where we charge our cell phones and charge our laptops and about you know Every three days I hook this to my car run an extension cord under my kitchen door and I charge this and That's on a power strip. We charge kind of all the electronics at once and this gets all charged up And we go on another couple days Right next up. We're going to talk about a power inverter one of a larger size something a bit bigger Something that's a bit more like the kind of power inverter you'd see in a small cabin with running solar So stay tuned to that video