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tommylight wrote:

Transistors should work, probably better low side, but do add a resistor between the Tang output and transistor base, something like 470 Ohm or 1K should be OK for normal signaling transistors.
Also, normal transistors do not require resistors between base and emitter for normal switching, MOSFET's do.
 

They normally don't, being current controlled devices, but I have seen instances of ghost activation in noisy environments (transistors do have a Miller capacitance, it's just much smaller electronics.stackexchange.com/a/95984). For prototyping I don't usually bother but if I'm ordering up a board I will add them since they're basically free.

Yes I forgot the base resistor!!!