Electronics Really Cool Idea...Have the entire circuit designed...

if it is the pot on the left hand side connect the leg on its own and one of the other two. if that makjes sense.

-- took me soo long to write those two lines i see u have already worked it out.

 

Opposite, they limit the transistor base current to a safe value. With no resistor, current path from a 4017 output is diode - base/emitter junction (effectively another diode) - ground, so it's easy to overload the 4017.

 

All right i am just posting a quick update....unfortunently no pictures yet....dam
<note to self: Buy a digital camera....SOON>

Well i have finished wiring up the "R" "H" LED arrays. I have not hooked them up in parallel yet, i am goign to wait until i have secured them to the plexi glass until i connect them up, that way I can weeve the wires around so that I don't have so much of a mess.

Hopefully i will have the circuit in a testable stage by this Sunday, 5-9-04, but i have been really busy between tennis and studying for my AP exam. But saturday and sunday i shall work hard and long.

Thanks for everyone's help and patients!!!!