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.