This circuit uses optocouplers paired with 220-ohm resistors to interface an Arduino Nano with an external device via a 5-pin relimate connector, providing electrical isolation and signal transfer while protecting the microcontroller. In this guide, you'll learn how they work and how you can use one in your own projects. Optocouplers are very useful when you need to isolate different sections of a circuit, for example in power. Today in this tutorial we will see the interfacing optocoupler with Arduino (4N35 or MCT2E). Optocoupler is also called an optoisolator. By electrical isolation, we mean that the power going into the input has. There are many different applications for optocoupler circuits, so there are many different design requirements, but a basic design for an optocoupler providing isolation for example between two circuits, simply involves the choice of appropriate resistor values for the two resistors R1 and R2. The optocoupler is extensively utilized in computer terminals, thyristor control devices, measuring instruments, copiers, automatic ticketing systems, and household appliances like fans and heaters for transmitting signals between circuits. It provides complete isolation between the input and the. Optocoupling devices work as logic level changeovers between two circuits, It has the ability to block noise transfer across the integrated circuits, for isolating logic levels from high voltage AC line, and for eliminating ground loops.