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Default Using a photoresistor and light to turn a transistor OFF...


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On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:06:56 -0700, John Larkin
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I've seen LDRs fry from too much light+current. I humbly suggest


I've done that... cobbled together a circuit with zero calculating
and it worked like a champ- until summer came then direct sunlight was
enough to lower the resistance and raise the ambient and poof no more
LDR.


Your LDR turned into a poof?!