An optocoupler is too expensive in this case. I'm trying to control a
full wave AC load by driving a sensitive gate directly with the PIC. Reg
Neale and Peter van Hoof posted a couple of suggestions as to how this
can be done. I'll give those a try.
Jim
>How are you driving the gate?
>If you are using an optocoupler device then the collector
>of the opto needs to be connected to the neutral wire and
>not the hot wire for the negative half cycle SCR.