On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Herbert Graf wrote:

>         Look up triacs and opto-couplers, they are perfect for this sort of
> application. TTYL

For the low voltage stuff, I'd go with the MOSFETs instead.  I have found
it to be a perfect solution.  Very little power wasted, parts are pretty
cheap, you can use logic level MOSFETs to avoid needing driver transistors
and such.

Here's the old thread:
http://www.piclist.com/techref/postbot.asp?by=thread&id=Switching+low%2Dvoltage+AC&tgt=_top&key=%22Switching+low+voltage+AC+%22&from=

My original post:
http://www.piclist.com/techref/postbot.asp?by=time&id=piclist\2002\02\18\114448a&tgt=_top

First mention of using MOSFETs:
http://www.piclist.com/techref/postbot.asp?by=time&id=piclist\2002\02\18\180632a&tgt=_top


Dale

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