Bring your home electrical appliances and equipment with you. Your Trace Inverter changes DC battery energy into 120-volt AC energy. Hand tools, lights, microwave ovens, navigation equipment, computers - almost all household appliances can be operated off your marine batteries. This includes appliances such as refrigerators that demand high start-up power.

As a charger

Plug into shore power or rev up your generator and the Trace Inverter starts charging your batteries and automatically transfers the power to your boat's AC electrical system. It charges rapidly and completely without over- charging, and maintains the full charge indefinitely. The synchronous-rectification design charges batteries in three stages - bulk, absorption, then float.

Battery friendly, boat friendly

To achieve a full charge and long battery- life, a unique temperature compensation circuit utilizes a remote probe to automatically adjust charge voltage to battery temperature. If your battery is in danger of over-discharge, the current-compensated low-battery protection circuit will automatically avert trouble by shutting off the inverter. Other design features protect against undercharging, overload, over temperature, low battery, over voltage AC, or accidental connection of an AC source to AC output. For most error conditions, the unit automatically resets itself after the problem is corrected. An engine-run alternator can be operated simultaneously without affecting inverter performance.

Smart

Microprocessor-controlled features include easy-to-read LED volt and amp meters, select for charger-only operation, automatic charge-rate reduction (to keep from over- loading AC input breakers based on pass thru loads), and fast 16-millisecond transfer to and from inverter/charger modes.

Rugged

Powder-coated aluminum chassis, stainless-steel fasteners, conformal-coated circuit board, and gold-plated connectors are designed to withstand harsh marine conditions. Battery cables and AC wiring terminate cleanly inside the bulkhead- mountable chassis.

Features

Inverter

• high-efficiency, high-surge power & low-idle current
• search mode for extremely low-power draw with no loads
• low-noise transformer & 3-speed fan cooling for quiet operation
• LED indicators for high/low battery, over-current & over-temperature
• extensive protection circuitry with automatic reset
• automatic low-battery protection
• audible alarm

Charger

• powerful 3-stage system for quick charging & long battery-life
• synchronous-rectification topology for high efficiency and cool operation
• battery-temperature sensor to automatically compensate charge voltages
• synchronous-transfer circuitry for fast, smooth mode-changes
• adjustable shore power in (AC amps in)

Options

• remote unit to control on/off – Rc4
• full function remote control – Rc5 (automatic DC load disconnect with RC5)

The new M1512 is designed specifically for marine installations. American Boat/Yacht Council Guidelines and ETL certification to UL marine standard 458. The M 1512 carries a two-year warranty from Trace Engineering.