230V AC PWM Dimmer Controlled by Arduino, Raspberry Pi
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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 Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc.
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.
What Do You Need
![VT43N1.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FZC/8UU5/IQLI4YJR/FZC8UU5IQLI4YJR.jpg&filename=VT43N1.jpg)
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![led-5mm-white-warm-5000-25.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FCW/RLNP/IQLI4YJQ/FCWRLNPIQLI4YJQ.jpg&filename=led-5mm-white-warm-5000-25.jpg)
- 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)
Schema
![pwm-acdimmer1.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FA3/9RHS/IQLI52C5/FA39RHSIQLI52C5.jpg&filename=pwm-acdimmer1.jpg)