This document gives focus on optocouplers including its basic principles, operation, and common applications. Suggested techniques in order to maximize the device’s efficiency are included. Cases ...

This simple scheme is based on the circuit shown below (Figure 1) in my recent article [1]. Figure 1 Using common transistor optocoupler to achieve a tube-like sound. It is known that the main feature ...

Deep in the heart of your latest project lies a little silicon brain. Much like the brain inside your own bone-plated noggin, your microcontroller needs protection from the outside world from time to ...

Standex-Meder Electronics announces its new ATEX optocoupler for intrinsically safe circuits. Standex-Meder Electronics announces its new ATEX optocoupler for intrinsically safe circuits. The ...

Relays usually are driven using optocouplers, which offer isolation between analog and digital grounds to ensure that switching currents in the relay coils do not affect the noise margin of the ...

In LEDs heat and high currents hasten the dimming process which can lead to unreliable operation in LED-powered optocouplers. Some simple and straight-forward analysis will keep their light shining ...

Build a basic optocoupler to protect and isolate circuits easily, perfect for DIY electronics projects Mike Johnson gives update on Jan. 6 plaque Hundreds of tourists stranded on remote island as ...