[RE-wrenches] remember the pirate solar inverter?

[toddcory at finestplanet.com]

afaik the first example of "AC coupling" was when one of these "trace microsines" was plugged into the off grid system (sw4024?) at richard perez's home back in ~1995?
 
todd
 
 


On Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:54pm, "boB at midnitesolar.com" <boB at midnitesolar.com> said:



> 
> 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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