Well,your description fits this layout:
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which is clearly not what you intended .

Well.. that is not what I meant... please have a heart... English is not my birth language and sometimes I have trouble expressing myself.

This is what I wanted to describe:

 

I thought so . Your English, by the way, is excellent: a lot better than many native speakers!

 

I thought so . Your English, by the way, is excellent: a lot better than many native speakers!

Thanks for the compliment ... but my LED still won't light up!

 

1.8k, Insufficient LED current?
Max.

 

On the other hand... maybe I shouldn't mess with the Mosfet's gate... This is not a fast switching application, but I'm guessing it's bad practice to interfere with the gate, since it has the delicate parameter of capacitance that determines its performance.