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cholin:
Well, I agree, I do not know anything about circuits except that if you touch one side of a battery to a light bulb, and the other side of the battery to the other part of the light bulb, it glows.  That's honestly all I know.  If you have some online resources that will explain these things, they would be GREATLY appreciated since im starting to find this stuff interesting.

Trimoor:
Electronics Basics
Otherwise, Google is your friend.  I hope you won't be disappointed to learn that electronics is almost entirely math.

I usually do put the resistor on the anode of the LED, but it was easier to draw it this way in paint.  Again, it makes no difference.

cholin:
Okay thanks alot.  I looked up alot of different things on google over few days, transistors, resistors, how LEDs work, that kinda crap.  I do not mind the math, because well, Im very good at math :)  Not nerdy, but its like natural.  Also, remember how I said I wanted an OFF function, I realized nobody put that, so what I figured is that on the circuit, where it says +5, I will put a switch there that will allow power off, then after the switch comes a pot to control brightness.  Im assuming that would work, right?  SEE I DO TRY :D

Trimoor:

--- Quote from: Trimoor on February 14, 2005, 09:05:31 pm ---All-off is easy--just disconnect the LED power supply.

--- End quote ---
I'm afraid I beat you to it.  (I can't let you win ;D)
Yes, it will work.

cholin:
Haha smartass :P  BTW if you have any more links for electronic crap its all welcome :D  I think I know what Im going to do for this now, thanks.  I was going to ask what you used for schematics, but Paint is what you said, and wow...thats umm, pretty cool for paint.

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