Recent content by sl1solo76

I use my computer a lot for watching movies and at night i really don't like getting up and having to manually hit the power switch, so i was thinking it could be possible to do it wireless. Now i have a general concept here, maybe an IR reciever going to the base, a line feeding from...

Given youd be planning on using the same parts, itd be cheaper... a lot cheaper at least with the CPU's and RAM for the MB... as far as bang for your buck and universality goes, i think the AMD AM2 platform would be good for a budget project like this. Everything in that line has gotten a...

1- typically the 4pin into the motherboard is needed, so if your line has fitting connectors, go for it 2-yeah they are made to draw off the power supply's molex(flat 4pin) connectors 3- yep, usually you find your 3.5" racks (below the opticals), and slide it in from the back to the front...

ehh it does seem a tad much, usually 4.2 cells like 1.2A currents on charge depending on how many cells you got in em

Aha! there it is! the blinking light that has given me my self-respect back! i never thought id be that excited over a blinking light... Thanks a ton man..

well it wasnt the board in that case, the wire just wasn't all the way down. and yes, a middle-school bully cannot begin to compete with the devastating effect this is having on my self-esteem.

yep, the breadboard is wacky. I triple-checked it and really can't understand how exactly that is happening.. might want to go find a new one tomorrow.. EDIT: with the quadruple-checking i discovered that the wire connecting them wasnt all the way in on the 7 side.

1-0 2-7.21 3-0 4-7.25 5-0.01 6-0 7-7.25 8-7.27 Battery voltage- 7.27v

alright so I've got the same 4.7k between 6 and 7 and a 1k running from 7 to the ground rail. The voltage for each pin reads- 1-0v 2-6.56v 3-6.58v 4-6.59 5-6.56 6-6.59 7-6.61 8-6.61 Battery (power source)-6.61vdc now what would cause that? sure doesn't look normal to me...

yeah i do, ill work on it and post what I am getting

thats the sending wire to the 10k pot between pin 7 and the positive rail.. i put a 1k in where you had said and a 1uf from 5 to the ground, but the same thing happened, just that steady defeating green glow of the LED.

ive basically put in one try a day at this, and interchange about 3 IC's possibly thinking that's the problem, but when push comes to shove, i can't make a basic 555 astable circuit powering a LED. Recently all I've been able to get out of it is a glorified circuit to just make the LED light up...