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Can LEDs or optocouplers be used without a resistor if PWM is used?

LEDs are often connected through a resistor and the purpose of this seems to be to lower the voltage across the LED to around 1.8V. Can PWM be used to lower the voltage instead of a resistor? If so, ...
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Alternative to optocoupler? Other switching devices?

I have a part that classifies what kind of power I get on ethernet by presenting different loads. For example, the part needs to have a 100 Ohm resistor across two of its pins, and the part will ...
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Zero Cross Detection Circuit for line voltage [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I detect a power outage with a microcontroller? I'm doing some research with the goal of eventually creating a light dimmer controllable from a micro controller. ...
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Choosing components for a triac's snubber

I'm interfacing the BT139-600 TRIAC with this MOC3051-M Opto-triac. I want to build a snubber circuit for the TRIAC as shown in the MOC3051M opto-triac's datasheet @ page 8, figure 12. The load ...