Amicus is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board, however, the Amicus board uses a Microchip PIC® microcontroller instead of an Atmel AVRtm type.
Comprehensive documentation and a helpful and friendly support environment, make using
Amicus18 an easy and enjoyable experience for beginners and seasoned programmers.
Forum Moderator Mackrakit (Dave) very kindly ported the Proton BASIC Compiler code over to PBP3 and modified the original AMicus18 docuemts for PBP3 users.
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Re: Calculating base resistor on mosfet AO3400A
You can drive the MosFet directly from PIC as your frequency of activations is really slow.
Ioannis Today, 10:57Gate driver is needed if your frequency is high. Also resistors or ferrite beads are also neededin...