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Re: Silicon Controlled Rectifier

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Originally Posted by teh_pwnerer795 View Post
Im planning to have a spike set off the gate. The multistage will be set off by the program.
Note that they have a definite response time for the mechanical switching, plus I don't know that it would be easy to direct hook it up to the gate. Honestly, you'd probably have a lot better results if you used a solid state device like a few high voltage transistors connected directly to digital outputs on the RC. The response time would be loads better and, hey, you'd get to learn about transistors too!

Also, if you care at all about precise timing, you get to learn about working in the ProcessLocalIO() loop and working with interrupts and timers.
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