It's not all that bad... HOT IN is the black wire from the source (wall
switch, outlet, etc), HOT OUT goes to what is being driven/dimmed (lamp).
The HOT OUT is just the conditioned HOT IN. These are the electrician
terms... you probably want to see 120VAC in [hot in], 0-120VAC out [hot out].

TAS

At 11:44 AM 12/8/99 -0800, Darren King wrote:
>   http://www.microchip.com/Download/Appnote/Category/rDesigns/40171a.pdf
>              As you can read, I'm  really lost.   Darren King
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