Greetings to all,

Newbie and my first post here...

To short things out here is the thing:

i have a circuit that uses a 16f84A pic and one of the I/O is ment to turn on and off an external circuit.

For this i thought first of using a relay but turns out the coil draws too much amps and the pic does not handle it very well.

My second though was a 5v solid state relay...but at my local shop they do not have any ...

Is there a way to do this with other components ( i mean...easy to get components ) ?

thanks
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