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230VAC Dimmer controlled by Arduino, Raspberry Pi

by bcsedlon on July 13, 2016

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Intro: 230VAC Dimmer controlled by Arduino, Raspberry Pi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 1: How does it work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 2: What do you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 3: Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Intro: 230VAC Dimmer controlled by Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Cheap, easy, galvanic isolated and powerful 230VAC dimmer controlled by PWM output from Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc.

Step 1: How does it work

Buy cheap AC dimmer on eBay, which is controllable by manual adjustable resistor. http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000W-AC-220V-SCR-Voltage-...

Connect parallel to manual adjustable resistor photoresistor, place photoresistor to dark box together with LED.

Control LED light by PWM output.

Step 2: What do you need

AC dimmer http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000W-AC-220V-SCR-Voltage-...
Photoresistor eg VT431N http://www.promelec.ru/pdf/DTS_vt400.pdf
LED (white)
resistor (approx 20kOhm)

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Step 3: Schema

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Raspberry pi by by TrackerJ JRV31
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Comments
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Orngrimm says: Jul 14, 2016. 3:25 AM REPLY

safety is always good. thanks for posting the 'ible.

I really would suggest to remove the adjustable resistor and have only the LDR there. Be sure your LDR and the removed adjustable resistor have the same
value-range to be able to use 0-100% PWM.

If you connect the LDR in parallel, you will NOT be able to use it 0-100% since you will create a parallel circuit...
you know the formula:
1/Rtot=(1/Rldr)+(1/Radjust)
so the worst thing: if you have the adjustable resistor on 0ohm, would will always have 0 ohm across all. with changing the adjustable resistor, you change
the complete range of possible PWM...

just save the hassle and replace it with the LDR... don't go parallel... ;)

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