... I thought I was using the transistors as switches, I saw his graph and it seems like the current stops rising but still continues flowing once the led goes on
this is not what I wanted to accomplish
I wanted to short the base to ground through the led so Q1 would effectively turn off.
I figured once the current to the battery stops the voltage of the battery would drop (which is natural behavior for liFePO4 cells). Then the q2 would turn off and q1 would resume to conduct current and this would cycle until the voltage drop in the cell was so minute as not to immediatly turn off the led. So somewhere I went wrong here anyone got a hint or two? ...