there is another 100uf cap that was in the original ciruit i think it was to filter out any spikes. it goes from vcc to ground. the cap on the left (in the photo) goes from ground to 10k resistor to 1k resistor to pin 7 on 555. there is a green wire that i have from pin 4 to an unsed line i was using that for the pin 4 to vcc connection. i put the jumper back from 4 to 8 so that , when energized , the timer would start but that doesn't work either. i'm lost