Optical, triac

[joshua17ss2]

Im trying to see if the parts i have a suffient, i am building a control board and just wana turn lights on and off, i have 50 H11D2 optoisolators, data sheets easy to find on ebay. they say there rated for 300, i want to use them to drive triacs rated at 200volts 1 amp. i wana make sure that i and my microcontroller will be safe. and help will be greatly appriciated.

josh

 

[audioguru]

It is an opto-transistor for driving DC, not AC.
Most triacs are turned on with AC from an MOC-30xx opto-triac driver.

 

[joshua17ss2]

So i can use this optoisolator to run high voltage DC loads like motors. and solinoid valves ?

The triacs i bought were labled sensative gate triacs, does that mean anything? L2001L3 Sensitive Gate Triac 200 Volt 1 Amp.
would the MOC-3022 do the triac switching?

thanks
josh

 

[audioguru]

The datasheet for the MOC3022 shows that its max voltage is 400V and its LED needs a max current of 10mA for the triac part to latch when its main terminal has 3V or more.
the datasheet has a circuit of it connected to a larger triac.