Hello :) You can use the cheap FET, may be some thing like BSS138, but with P-chanell (to open FET with a low logical level sygnal). As I remember it can commutate about a half of 1A. Eugene
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Re: [AVR-Chat] Power reset (VCC) of some device from MICROCONTROLLER OUTPUT PIN without using relay
2010-09-03 by evgenii sorokin