Manufacturer profile
About Xantrex
Reviewed 2026-07-26
Xantrex is a power-electronics brand and operating business within Mission Critical Electronics. Its current products emphasize onboard AC power, inverters, inverter-chargers, battery charging, solar panels, and energy storage for vehicles and marine applications. In this manual catalog, Xantrex also identifies an earlier programmable-power instrument lineage that includes XFR, XHR, XPD, XDC, and related remotely controlled DC supplies.
History
The manuals in this collection require a wider scope than Xantrex's current vehicle and marine portfolio. Official AMETEK Programmable Power documentation retains Xantrex operating material for the XFR and XDC families and describes GPIB, CANbus, Ethernet, and RS-232 control of programmable DC supplies used for component testing, battery simulation, sequencing, and automated test. Xantrex's own legacy-products index now maps certain programmable-power entries, including XDI and XM equipment, to AMETEK, showing that this instrument line is historical rather than part of the current Xantrex catalog.
Schneider Electric's official corporate history records its acquisition of Xantrex in 2008. By January 2021, Xantrex's own announcements described Xantrex as a Mission Critical Electronics brand and subsidiary based in Burnaby, Canada, serving RV, marine, military, construction, emergency-service, bus, work-truck, and commercial-truck applications. Current purchasing terms identify Xantrex LLC, while the live About page places the brand within MCE. This draft records the current relationship but does not infer a single founding year from marketing statements such as 'over 40 years' or treat MCE's headquarters as Xantrex's headquarters.
Equipment specialties
- programmable DC power supplies
- power inverters and inverter-chargers
- battery charging and energy storage
- solar power conversion
- remote power-system control and monitoring
Sources
- About Xantrex — Xantrex (accessed 2026-07-26)
- Legacy Products — Xantrex (accessed 2026-07-26)
- GPIB-M Multichannel Interface — AMETEK Programmable Power (accessed 2026-07-26)
- Xantrex General Purchasing Terms and Conditions — Xantrex LLC (accessed 2026-07-26)