RCinFLA
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Three guys from Heart inverter broke off to start Trace in the mid 80's.I have never heard this before. Did they not sell the company to Xantrex and move on to create Outback and Magnum, and ultimately Midnite Solar?
Trace was bought out by Xantrex Canada in 1990, and then bought out by Schneider Electric in 2008 which is more like a holding company leaving what they purchase to run pretty much independently. Not sure about the when/what/why of the Conext association but likely a shotgun wedding arranged by Schneider Electric.
The original Trace patent 5373433 was filed in 1992. It is the three-transformer secondary side series connected output design relying on low leakage inductance power transformers.
Some of the original Trace guys broke off after the company sale to start Outback. They started with using the single low freq transformer leakage inductance as part of the PWM filter along with secondary winding side filter capacitor.