The OK4U was made by NFK. first sold in Europe. Then sold here under the OK4U label. Then as Michael said the rights in the US were bought by Trace, as the MS100. 100 watt max. But didn’t come with a plug.
You might have to talk to David Katz about who was first. As I seem to remember that AEE ( where i worked in the 90’s) sold them for a while, before they became the trace MS100. jay peltz power ( I’ve got 2 brand new ones with paperwork) > On Sep 17, 2015, at 4:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > 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.. >> _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: [email protected] Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
