[RE-wrenches] remember the pirate solar inverter?

[boB at midnitesolar.com]

Yep.  The OK4U   was like 100 watts or 125 watts maybe ?

I was the first one in the US to hook one up (I'm pretty sure ?) after 
Bill Ropenecker, the then
CEO of Trace Engineering handed me after his trip to Europe and brought
it back with him.

boB


On 9/17/2015 4:02 PM, Michael Welch wrote:
> "OK4U," then Trace bought the rights to rebrand it as a "Trace Microsine."
>
> I ran one of each, and still have a couple of the Trace ones kicking around somewhere from guerilla solar days, and I don't think they came with a plug.
>
>
> Nik Ponzio, Building Energy wrote at 03:31 PM 9/17/2015:
>   
>> Question for the old timers out there: What was very early micro inverter called that was designed to plug directly into the wall? It had DC input for single solar panel and the output was a live 120V male plug.
>>
>> On a related note, is there anything like the SMA Secure Power Supply inverters that will run off just 1 or 2 panels?
>>
>> Thanks for any insight..
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