Bob Ammerman wrote: > You could consider capacitive coupling. That would work in theory, but then you still have to deal with the large common mode noise that can be considerably larger than the signal. A transformer takes care of this nicely. I also don't understand why these transformers are so hard to get. They are common and available here in North America. At the very least, surely one of the suppliers up here will ship to South America (or wherever the OP was). ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads