lightning control

[eYeLess]

hi what do u guys recommend for home lightning control to use: solid
state relays, TRIAC, high power mosfet, igbt, thyristor????
thanks

 

[CFoley1064]

Subject: lightning control
From: eye1ess@hotmail.com (eYeLess)
Date: 9/21/2004 9:20 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <9fa8f5bc.0409211820.6849310e@posting.google.com

hi what do u guys recommend for home lightning control to use: solid
state relays, TRIAC, high power mosfet, igbt, thyristor????
thanks

For home lightning control, mount at least one lightning rod on the roof of the
house, and use cable to get a good earth ground.

For home lighting control of incandescents, most controls use triacs.

Good luck either way.
Chris

 

[Chaos Master]

eYeLess says:

hi what do u guys recommend for home lightning control to use: solid
state relays, TRIAC, high power mosfet, igbt, thyristor????
thanks

Do you mean 'lighting'?
If yes, the TRIAC is the most common way.


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[w_tom]

Best to use 'zero crossing' triacs. This will minimize
power dissipated in that triac.

Chaos Master wrote:

eYeLess says:
hi what do u guys recommend for home lightning control to use: solid
state relays, TRIAC, high power mosfet, igbt, thyristor????
thanks

Do you mean 'lighting'?
If yes, the TRIAC is the most common way.

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"eYeLess" <eye1ess@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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hi what do u guys recommend for home lightning control to use: solid
state relays, TRIAC, high power mosfet, igbt, thyristor????
thanks

Use a kite with a tinsel string and a key at the end. ;-)

 

[eYeLess]

haha funny sorry i meant lighting control
well im trying to control a normal light bulb 100 watts maybe via a
micrcontroller that will recieve the command from a central station
using zigbee i thought i could use one of the general i/o ports of the
mcu
but im not sure what else i would be missing to control the triac
do you guys have any suggestions? thanks in advance!

 

[Chaos Master]

w_tom writes within:

Best to use 'zero crossing' triacs. This will minimize
power dissipated in that triac.

Exactly, I forgot this. This is what replying when you're tired gives.

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[Bob Masta]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 03:57:26 GMT, Rich Grise <null@example.net> wrote:

On Thursday 23 September 2004 12:56 pm, eYeLess did deign to grace us with
the following:

haha funny sorry i meant lighting control
well im trying to control a normal light bulb 100 watts maybe via a
micrcontroller that will recieve the command from a central station
using zigbee i thought i could use one of the general i/o ports of the
mcu
but im not sure what else i would be missing to control the triac
do you guys have any suggestions? thanks in advance!

If you don't already know how to drive a triac gate from a uC pin,
you'd probably be better off with solid state relays. Just input
a DC voltage and they control the line. And they're already
isolated.

You might want to look into triac driver chips like the MOC3061.
These take logic-level inputs and provide isolated drive to a
triac. They do all the zero-crossing detection stuff for you.

Best regards,


Bob Masta
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