LED Curcuits
Ron, the LED's that I have picked are 3mm round with 35mA current draw at 2.0 forward voltage for both red and green LED's from FutureLec (LED3R & LED3G) They both also had this spcification (Forward Voltage Vcc=Min,Ii=-12mA), which I cannot quite decipher but might have some relevance to you guys. Ccrutschow seems certian that I can do without the pot and though his explination seems complicated, it sounds right so I will go with that, especially since you concur. Thanks to both you Ron and Ccrutschow! I am including a drawing of both schematics. Before removing the pot and after, where now it shows that pin 4 connects only to the negative of the power source.
k7elp60, I like your schematic because it is so simple, but here I run into the same problem of drawing current directly off the rails to power the LED's, but now, not only am I powereing the LED'd off the rail, but the IC's and other components as well. The way I want to power the total LED curcuit is from a seperate power source from the 18-20V AC of course rectified to 7 VDC. If you or anybody has an idea of how to do that, simply and cheaply, I would certianly appreciate it. Thanks a lot too, buddy!
Here are the schematics, they may kind of small. If they are not readable let me know.