| ??? 02/22/10 17:40 Read: times |
#173434 - That won't help at all! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Sandip Basu said:
I think I can do the same thing to one of the input pin of an op-amp and use its output through an optocoupler to annunciate the ZERO-CROSSING of the ac line. I think this method will sense ZERO-CROSS quicker than other methods at the same time will be less hazardous and less dangerous. No, it won't!! You are still connecting live mains direct to your low-voltage circuit - so that is still exactly as dangerous as before! Please, for your own safety and the safety of others, do not connect direct to live mains! Use a transformer. Or, at least, use an opto-coupler; but that still requires you to take care of creepage & clearance distances - if you don't know what they are, then use a transformer!  |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Zero crossing detector - technique adoption | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sounds like a bad idea to me! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| relying on parasitic diodes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Confusing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I mean | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Designing to typical values | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| what blather | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| " IDEA ? " - RIDICULOUS | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| at least for this one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh dear: | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| tough, but true | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| just caught this one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Idiom | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It really is a *very* bad idea! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Don't blindly follow app note | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's not so much the parasitic diodes... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| two reasons | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What should I do ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That won't help at all! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| two wrongs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Most app-notes don't work ... because they're wrong! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| This is typical ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I hate to tell this,... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
App engineers not always the sharpest tools in the shed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Unbelievable!! | 01/01/70 00:00 |