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[Music]  [Music]  you  fuel cell my fuel cell doesn't work why  well it's a pretty complicated device so  definitely could be a problem with the  fuel cell by the way it's not impossible  I mean if you'll sell it's got a couple  of parts but the first thing you got to  make sure with fuel cell is that you  actually have fuel in the fuel cell no  joke that's pretty important will not  work without fuel cell and I'm not  belittling the point but it is pretty  essential make sure that the fuel cell  has fuel in it I had another owner where  the tube that there's a tube from the  cap that goes to the bottom had fellin  off and you could only see it in the  flashlight so there was fuel in the fuel  canister but you had to actually notice  with a flashlight that the little straw  that went to the fuel cap had fallen to  the bottom so that was an expensive  frustrating experience that I lived  there is fuel there you asked a question  but what you forgot to say is the fuel  straw still connected the fuel cap  connected to the bottom and I didn't and  we took the fuel thing out when back to  service came back to in work then huh is  extremely frustrating and embarrassing  so didn't know that problem now I know  so make sure that the fuel straw at the  top works the other thing too that you  want to make sure is that the voltage  sense and the output are still connected  obviously to your undistributing that's  pretty obvious this thing will never  output more than you know whatever it's  rated at so if it's an 8 to 10 model  it's only gonna output maybe 8 9 amps so  it's not like your if you have a wife  use that's 10 or 15  it's never gonna blow unless there was a  short most of the problems with this is  related to overheating I would say right  like if you're in a container and it's  complete installing a place that's too  tight there's no ventilation and the  weather outside is a hundred degrees it  might give you an alarm but it's gonna  tell you I'm shutting myself down it's  too hot that's one the other thing too  is someone has removed the methanol fuel  cell and put it on its side and there's  actually believe it or not inside its it  needs methanol to kind of prime itself  inside if it's not there it can't work  and that's why the when you sell them  there's a little service  you can squeeze in the nozzle where the  water comes out so if someone takes it  out of his car in the winter and puts it  on the side and puts it back at the  beginning of the spring I've had owners  say hey Jeff it's not working  they take the service bottle that they  have they put it in squeeze it in and  then it's primed and it's not a lot and  then it basically starts working so that  generally is what I've seen with the  poise and that's about it in terms of  other diagnosing if it gives you an  error at the unit itself it's actually  going to tell you because this device  actually sort of a little computer it's  not stupid it's constantly looking at  error codes and it might be throwing you  an error code which is great error codes  are awesome because you're not guessing  why something doesn't work you just  error codes 79 eriko 61 and now that's  basically how you troubleshoot  a methanol fuel cell pretty  straightforward any questions on that