What's "2E04"? I've never seen that designation.Looks like 2E04 assignment. What have you learned so far about circuit analysis?
I'm pretty much just struggling to replicate it on my breadboard, as I can't read circuit diagrams very wellWhat help are you looking for?
What is tripping you up?
Do you know how the internal connections on your bread board are set up?
Do you know how to use jumper wires to connect one strip of holes on your breadboard to another strip of holes?
Do you know how to identify which physical component corresponds to which symbol in the schematic?
Do you know how to identify which pin is which on those components where it matters?
This is kind of helping me understand it better, but how would I go about my jumper chord placement using this schematic?Start by numbering each connection like this: View attachment 276825
I've chosen 1 for the ground (negative rail) and 6 for the posistive rail as it's tidier to keep them apart. The emitter of the transistor is also 1 (i.e. ground) so I chose 2 and 3 for the base and collector respectively as the three legs are adjacent. Every component is then connected to their respective numbered rails.
Personally, I hate solderless breadboards, it's hard to see what's going on and connections fall out etc. Neater to place your schematic on a piece of wood and hammer small panel pins half way in wherever there is a number. Then solder in the wires and components to the panel pin tops.
Read this:This is kind of helping me understand it better, but how would I go about my jumper chord placement using this schematic?
I wonder if the LED and transistor would survive without thermal runaway if the capacitor charges fast enough! But the circuit as drawn must be wrong. I wonder if the intended circuit was something like:The moment that 12V is applied then the LED on the right side and probably also the transistor will burn out because nothing limits the charging current of the capacitor
Exactly. Moving the components around as suggested should make LED1 come on immediately the battery is connected, then LED2 should come on after a brief delay when the current through LED1 charges the capacitor up to 0.6V to turn the transistor on.I agree LED2 needs R4 in series with it to limit its current and the capacitor was in the wrong location.