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The transistor is still normally ON, which is not what he wants. Also, it will not change state until the reed switch opens, which I think is also not what he wants. Move the pot and series resistor to the positive rail, and it should work.Your circuit will blow up the 74HC14 without a current-limiting resistor. The max allowed output current of an inverter in a 74HC14 is only 25mA. Your circuit makes it try to give 60mA.
The 25mA is amplified by the 2N3055 to a minimum of only 0.6A. If another inverter is paralleled to the inverter that drives the 2N3055 (each with their own 150 ohm resistor) then the base current of the 2N3055 transistor will be 50ma and its load current can be about 1A. The max allowed supply current for a 74HCxxxx is 50mA.
Your circuit will blow up the 2N3055 transistor without a diode to arrest the voltage spike caused when the current to an inductor is turned off.
I swapped the parts so that the action is reversed.
Did you also move the reed switch to the positive rail, and change the resistors surrounding it also? If you read Audioguru's post, and then mine, you will see that this is necessary to get it to trigger when the reed switch closes.I changed the pot and its resistor over to the positive rail. That made it normally open which is what I want. I have the 2n3055 turning on a relay at the moment, and I noticed that the points don't close until the reed switch opens after it was closed. Also that the faster the reed switch works the pulse stops. I know this becasuse the relay doesn't do any thing. So if I activate the reed switch slowly it sorta works, go a little faster and nothing happens.
Something is fried, or you have wiring errors.Just finished switching everything, and nothing happened. I get a small spark at the battery. I even by passed the reed switch, and still nothing. I do appreicate all the help though.