t0m
Junior Member level 1
I want to switch my basement lights (2x40W tubes @ 110V) and have selected a MOC3041 optocoupled triac driver and BT136 sensitive gate triac. The schematic I am looking at is Figure 13 on https://www.futurlec.com/LED/MOC3041.shtml. It specifies 360R resistor in series with the load and 330R between the gate and one terminal of the triac, for use with 240VAC mains. What resistor values should I use? I presume that lower values are needed but I don't know how to select them.