By the way, I forgot to mention that one example of a practical use for the
optoisolator would be detecting 120 Volt AC signal and sending the
information to a measurement system.  But You can probably think of many
better uses.

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> From: PHXSYS <PHXSYS@aol.com>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: optoisolator, simple explanation
> Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 1:24 PM
>
> I was hoping someone could provide a simple explanation of an
optoisolator and
> an example of its practical use.
>
>
> Jon