> Light??

How do you mean ? Just shine a bright light at on detector(s) ?

> 90mW dosen't seem like an outrageous amount.

No it isn't, and as long as the whole lot is balanced there's no
option than can be dismissed. Ease of assembly and repeatability
are desirable, which is one possible drawback to winding my own
transformers

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