[RE-wrenches] Trace 2248 Documentation

[Brian Teitelbaum]

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to the 1980's....

The Trace 2248 is one of the original line of Trace products dating from the late 80's to very early 90's. Those "black battleships" were later upgraded into the "U Series" Trace inverters. Mod-Square wave, and no William, they were not grid-tie-able.

All I have are a couple of hard-copy spec sheets, hard-copy performance graphs (load capacity vs time, and power vs efficiency) an explanation on how to set the user controls for the battery charging section (if it had the "SB" option), a FAQ sheet about it getting ETL Listing and switching to white color, and Trace pricelist from August 9th, 1992.

Sorry, no manual. I thought that I had one, but it's not in the archive file. I'll let you know if it turns up. Check to see if Xantrex still has a manual for the U-Series, since they are basically the same thing.

Oh..and I found a printout of a Home Power review from 1993 of the 2512 model...written by Bob-O Schultze. Home Power #35

The 1987 AEE Catalog only had the 1512, 2024, and 2132 models in it. No 48V. The 1988 Catalog had the 1512, 2024, 2132, 2236, and 2248, so that was the first year that they were available.

Those are 20-year-old inverters. Some of them are probably still out there working.

If any of this is useful to you, contact me off-list and I'll scan it all into pdf's and send it to you.



Brian Teitelbaum
AEE Solar


-----Original Message-----
From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Travis Creswell
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:56 PM
To: 'RE-wrenches'
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Trace 2248 Documentation

This is the great thing about the wrenches list!  I've got a qty of old
2248's that I salvaged from a tear out job that have a box on top of them
with a small transformer and a circuit board inside and a ribbon cable to
connect it two inverters.  Now I know that this is a set up for paralleling
them.  If someone can use these boxes let me know as I almost recycled them
today.  I've got at least 6 of them.

Anyway, I'm in the process of testing and cleaning them up for resale and
could use a manual for this inverter.  Xantrex's website does not appear to
have one.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Travis Creswell
Ozark Energy Services