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Arduino AC TRIAC dimmer - Potentiometer


Download the .zip file below. Open it on your Arduino IDE.




This code is for the schematic with the potentiometer for the power control. Read all the comments in the code.




/*TRIAC control with potentiometer; author: ELECTRONOOBS 
 * Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/ELECTRONOOBS
 * Tutorial: http://www.ELECTRONOOBS.com/eng_circuitos_tut20.php
 * Thank you
*/
int detectado = 0;
int valor=0;
int last_CH1_state = 0;

void setup() {
  /*
   * Port registers allow for lower-level and faster manipulation of the i/o pins of the microcontroller on an Arduino board. 
   * The chips used on the Arduino board (the ATmega8 and ATmega168) have three ports:
     -B (digital pin 8 to 13)
     -C (analog input pins)
     -D (digital pins 0 to 7)   
  //All Arduino (Atmega) digital pins are inputs when you begin...
  */  
   
  PCICR |= (1 << PCIE0);    //enable PCMSK0 scan                                                 
  PCMSK0 |= (1 << PCINT0);  //Set pin D8 trigger an interrupt on state change. Input from optocoupler
  pinMode(3,OUTPUT);        //Define D3 as output for the DIAC pulse

}

void loop() {
   //Read the value of the pot and map it from 10 to 10.000 us. AC frequency is 50Hz, so period is 20ms. We want to control the power
   //of each half period, so the maximum is 10ms or 10.000us. In my case I've maped it up to 7.200us since 10.000 was too much
   
   valor = map(analogRead(A0),0,1024,7200,10);
    if (detectado)
    {
      delayMicroseconds(valor); //This delay controls the power
      digitalWrite(3,HIGH);
      delayMicroseconds(100);
      digitalWrite(3,LOW);
      detectado=0;
    } 
}




//This is the interruption routine
//----------------------------------------------

ISR(PCINT0_vect){
  /////////////////////////////////////               //Input from optocoupler
  if(PINB & B00000001){                               //We make an AND with the pin state register, We verify if pin 8 is HIGH???
    if(last_CH1_state == 0){                          //If the last state was 0, then we have a state change...
      detectado=1;                                    //We haev detected a state change!
    }
  }
  else if(last_CH1_state == 1){                       //If pin 8 is LOW and the last state was HIGH then we have a state change      
    detectado=1;                                      //We haev detected a state change!
    last_CH1_state = 0;                               //Store the current state into the last state for the next loop
    }
}


TRIAC arduino schematic