Your questions and some others on another forum, gave me food for thought and I eventually worked it out:
I figured out what was up with the dissonance between what I thought I was working on and what I was actually working on. Hang on tight... I have a 1981 kit. I was following the...
OK. I'm hoping this is a good place to ask this, if not and somebody has a better forum to suggest, I'm all ears.
I have gotten hold of an old 200-in-one from Radioshack and I'm putting together a simple circuit:
Positive Terminal 4.5V->Lamp->100 ohm resistor->Negative Terminal
The light...