Increasing base current
Hello Audioguru,
I am a total novice when it comes to these things. (could you tell?) lol
Can you please be very specific with your instruction as to how I go about paralleling the other five triggers?
I know that 3, 5, 9, 11 and 13 are in and 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 are out.
At present, I am using 1 and 2 as my triger and have 12V going to leg 3 and five. I also have 9, 11 and 13 linked together with a piece of wire. This is how the first circuit was built as far as I can tell. I am not using legs 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and also 14 which is 12V in.
I have leg 1 hooked to center (#2) leg of the trim pot and leg 2 to the base of the transistor. I have the collector hooked to power ground and the emitter hooked to lamp ground which in effect makes or breaks the ground leg for the lamp.
As I said before, I am total novice when it comes to electronics so if you could step by step me through what connects to what as far as the Schmitt trigger configuration, I would be most greatfull.
Thanks so much for your time and knowledge.
Jim