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230V AC PWM Dimmer Controlled by Arduino, Raspberry Pi

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Cheap, easy, galvanic isolated and powerful 230VAC dimmer controlled by PWM output from
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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-... (http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000W-
AC-220V-SCR-Voltage-Regulator-Speed-Controller-Dimmer-Thermostat-UF-/371464490134?
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Connect parallel to manual adjustable resistor photoresistor, place photoresistor to dark box
together with LED.

Control LED light by PWM output.

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AC dimmer http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000W-AC-220V-SCR-Voltage-...
(http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000W-AC-220V-SCR-Voltage-Regulator-Speed-Controller-
Dimmer-Thermostat-UF-/371464490134?hash=item567d024c96:g:CWYAAOSw14xWH3ny)
Photoresistor eg VT431N http://www.promelec.ru/pdf/DTS_vt400.pdf
(http://www.promelec.ru/pdf/DTS_vt400.pdf )
LED (white)
resistor (approx 20kOhm)

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(/member/VincentT57/) VincentT57 (/member/VincentT57/) 2 years ago

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I received same dimmer, but it doesn't work. Above rotating potentiometer, it has one more variable resistor
(blue box). I just guess it have to be adjusted to some Ohms, I tried all, but dimmer still produce full voltage.
Guys, can you help please, what to do with it?
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(/member/Orngrimm/) Orngrimm (/member/Orngrimm/) 3 years ago

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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.

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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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