Recent content by Triple_E

I have done the same a dozen times, on half dozen different diagrams. Obviously the way I'm building these are wrong. The way I'm seeing the diagram or something. I'm going to be able to get a breadboard today, so I'm just going to get it to work on one of those and work from there. I really...

Okay, I replaced the cap with a 10uf and also replaced the pot with 100k fixed. Although I had noticed that when I had disconnected the battery earlier, the LED stopped coming on at all. Nothing had come loose and/or short circuited that I know of. 555 timer was cool, LED is fine (tested it)...

I was hoping for a 1-2 second delay between each flash, if possible. I was going to start with the cap and resistor I have and change them to my liking once I had it working. I have two semi-new PSU's that have anywhere from 100-3.5k uf caps in them (don't know if I can use them though?) I can...

Keep in mind, I understand that this is a VERY crude looking circuit I have made and this is not how it should be done (With a piece of sheet plastic) But this is all I have at the moment. But that's beside the point of why I'm not understanding why it is not working. http://imgur.com/lqRLa29...

Yes! been trying to edit it in for a few. sorry about that.

Hello, I have been in the process of building a small lightning cloud out of Poly-Fil and some LED's. I have looked up on how to build flashing LED's with a 555 timer, and I have tried (many) times, yet every time I hook up the 9v battery, my LED either turns on, but does not flash, or doesn't...