I think you took my electronic village idiot with a grain of salt. I'm about at a preschool level compared to y'all, but I'm willing to give making a circuit board a whirl.
I've ventured to all the electronic places in town and all keep pointing me in different directions about who knows how to do it and who carries the parts, guess they don't know enough about it either. I went to radio shack and was able to get all the parts except the diodes and the transister, which I've found on the internet. I have a couple of questions, so please bare with me.
1. I just got all the parts which the skematic had, but am wondering if I needed to get larger parts for the watts that light is running on, or if you think the parts listed are more than fine for the application?
2. I'm at a loss on how to connect the POT. It has three prongs and I'm assuming the middle is the in and either one of the sides is the out, but how do you connect it? Do you solder a wire to the board and out to the POT, then a wire from the POT back to the circuit connected to the swiggly line (for lack of a better term)? And is that same line supposed to connect to both diodes?
3. The spot light has 2 wires going to it, where in the skematic does the pos enter, and where does it come out, on line 1 (on the right)? Where does the ground connect to?
4. The gap between 1 and 3 (on the right), that is where the transister goes, correct?
5. Is the negative going to continue out of this if I lay it in-line before the on/off switch built into the light, or will this assume the on/off switch? If that is the case then it might be best to mount it inside the housing of the light.
Sorry, I think I'm making it more complicated than it really is, but that's what happens when you don't know a whole lot about it. If anyone would rather discuss this over the phone, shoot me a pm with your number and I'll give you a call at your convenience (if it's within the US).
This is what I'm working on.
http://www.brinkmann.net/shop/Detai...ies=FLA-2003-3&seriesname=Max Million&id=1227
Thanks in advance for any further help on this matter.
Mike