Leon,
I know you and know you are joking.
But lets all keep from getting to a point where it is easy for people to take shots at each other under the claim of "It's a Joke" I saw what happened at another forum when the staff allow this. It runs people off. I know that you are joking but we need to be carefull or the next thing will be people who are not and bypassing rules under the thought they are.
The OP had a good point I acknowledged it and took action to improve the design. I did not remove the resistors to make it safer, I remove the resistor because when I was changing the design to make it better I saw that I could do away with them.
As far as using Ver 3 and prior PCB's, I will be using all of mine. I live in Florida (normal humidity when it's not raining is 80% - 90%) and have used the units for two years without one single failure or other issue. Even with water condensating on the pcbs I have not had an issue.
Considering Microchip thinks it's OK to hook the PIC's straight to the Triac without an opto at all I do not consider the two pins too close together a HUGE problem either if a builder does not bridge the gap but it could be improved and should, and in the process I found a better improvement that removes this issue and saves precious build time for our users also.
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LoginHow much space is there on a triac leg between pads? 1mm same as we are talking about.
But what do they know? it's not like they are professionals or anything.
The fact is all of us should be thankful for the input on the issue as it has led to improvements of the design. It was only the reaction afterwards that I questioned.
Lets not make the OP sorry he pointed it out or it will hurt the products in the furture because people will be afraid to post improvements.
RJ