learning...by myself!

Go to the Yahoo User's groups and join the ltspice group. Not a lot of traffic but they have a file library that has everything from battery models to speaker schematics to (you guessed it) methods to simulate a pot. You could easily spend days or weeks going through the information on the site. A lot of very knowledgable users.

AWESOME. i will do that. i wrote to radioshack complaining about the fact that they don't carry them. there .5A 250v ceramic's(the fuses i mean). i thought about jumping it but knowing me i'd end up wasting 40 bucks lol. thats like a tenth of a paycheck lol.

I melted an LED today lol. i was messing with a pot and had it turned all the way down stuck the first leg and the divider leg in ( divider in the negative, and the first leg in parallel of the led) it was pretty rad. a yellow LED glowed reddish purple then started smoking. and it cracked the head. pretty rad but it scared the bajesus out of me