Found in documentation from the 1980s, this circuit is used for resistive loads (incandescent lamps). The triac must be equipped with a heat sink.
With this circuit it is possible to fire an SCR from the light that falls on a phototransistor. The circuit...
This simple circuit can use any general-purpose transistor. The power supply must be isolated. The circuit...
Using a sensor from the time, this circuit was found in the 1992 Radio Electronics Handbook...