Scott Touchton <stouchton <at> petstop.com> writes:

> I use a sensitive gate triac that fires in all four quadrants.  The gate is
> held to ground via a .1uF cap, and fed from a PIC I/O pin via a 330 ohm
> resistor.  

Ok, thanks. I hadn't thought about a cap there but now it makes sense. Normally
one holds the gate to K with 50 ohms and it works. I'll try a capacitor too and
see what happens.

thanks,
Peter P.


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