stamps and SCR''s
Chris,
If you intend to use the SCR for 110VAC, I would highly recommend using an
opto-isolator made for driving SCRs & triacs. You can get them in 1, 2 or 4
per DIP package and they are cheap. They usually offer about 3000 volts of
isolation to protect your Stamp or other low voltage circuitry. They are
packaged so that the input and output are on opposite sides of the package.
If you plan to make a PCB using these, it is usually a good idea to use
this arrangment to keep all low voltage on one side and the high voltage on
the other side of the board.
At 09:29 PM 11/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone out there ever crossed the big divide between a stamp
>output and an SCR gate?
>
>Chris
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If you intend to use the SCR for 110VAC, I would highly recommend using an
opto-isolator made for driving SCRs & triacs. You can get them in 1, 2 or 4
per DIP package and they are cheap. They usually offer about 3000 volts of
isolation to protect your Stamp or other low voltage circuitry. They are
packaged so that the input and output are on opposite sides of the package.
If you plan to make a PCB using these, it is usually a good idea to use
this arrangment to keep all low voltage on one side and the high voltage on
the other side of the board.
At 09:29 PM 11/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone out there ever crossed the big divide between a stamp
>output and an SCR gate?
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>