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From: heller@algol.crd.ge.com (aaron j heller)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: TTL to 1500 watts - query
Summary: Solid State Relay
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Date: 9 Jun 89 17:42:25 GMT
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In article <1164@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline) writes:
...
>the part that's going to have to take the delicate little TTL
>signal from my shift register and use it to turn on and off a
>1500-watt lighting instrument.  A mechanical relay is right out
...
There is a device called a solid state relay.  I used a few of
them about 10 yrs. ago for a similiar application.  They are
a combination of an opto-isolator and triac.  Some of them also
have zero-crossing detectors built in to minimize RFI problems.
Check the Newark catalog.

Aaron Heller  (heller@crd.ge.com  uunet!crdgw1!heller)