It will usually smell bad, will trip breakers or your appliance that you plug into it will not operate. A multi tester can also tell.
Loss of power, excess use of fuel, and converter will get red hot.
Hard starting, loss of power, poor fuel mileage, and the converter will get extremely hot.
Loss of power, poor fuel economy, and converter gets extremely hot.
many people call it a power converter. But it is actually called transformer.
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In solar power plants, the power is directly transmitted through converter but excess power is usually stored in a battery and transferred through converter.
A converter where the power flow is in both the directions...e.g. If you parallel buck converter and boost converter you can achieve bi-directional power flow...
A bad catalytic converter will cause a severely restricted exhaust system. You would notice a lack of power and performance from you vehicle and in cases of a completely blocked converter, the engine may not run.
Loss of power, poor fuel mileage, hard starting, and the converter will get red hot. Normally the check engine light will also come on.
It is a bidirectional power flow converter
yes i think so but not that sure
No, the vehicle will not only not have more power it will not run properly with converter removed. Secondly it is illegal to remove the catalytic converter.