[sdiy] MCT2 Optocoupler questions

[Andy Eakin]

Thank you to whoever replied, I see it in the archives, but due to my 
DNS provider botching a notification from ICANN, my domain was down for 
about 48 hours.

Anyhow, that DP filter is awesome! In some of his example it almost has 
a formant effect.

Andy

On 1/19/2015 6:47 PM, Andy Eakin wrote:
> I posted this over at Muff's but with the recent board issues,
> visibility is a bit low.
>
> Long story short, I am in possession of about 80 of these little
> buggers.  While I have not worked with optocouplers before, I have
> always understood them as an on/off switch for isolating (thinking MIDI
> interface or high voltage switching).  Looking through the datasheet
>
> http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/mct2.pdf
>
> I found some things that have arouse my curiosity:
>
> "Base Lead Provided for Conventional Transistor Biasing"
> and
> Page 4 Figure 2 "COLLECTOR CURRENT vs INPUT-DIODE FORWARD CURRENT"
>
>
> This leads me to believe that I could drop one in place of any similar
> NPN BJT and use the LED as a current controlled fun bit.  Is my thinking
> right?
>
> I would love to experiment but my bench is still packed in boxes from a
> recent move.
>
> Andy