RED LED Indacator?

[Obi-Dar Ke-Gnomie]

To Novastar you should listen. Wise is he in the ways of the LED. I am but a Padawan, and have only a dim awareness of the Great Diodes of Light.

(BTW, those throwies are pretty cool. I'll have to make some of those up.)

[Novastar]

If you put the indicator LED(s) on a different pole of a DPDT switch, you could also allow the switch to turn off the indicators separate of the Luxeon and/or sound circuit... and thus, you may rarely need to mess with the coin cell for the indicators.

Or... you could give them an ENTIRELY separate switch and circuit.

Something like:

SWITCH 1 = Sound, luxeon, main battery source
SWITCH 2 = LED indicator(s), coin cell (no resistor needed)

In fact, I always suggest two separate switches (and thus, circuits) for people who are (for example) doing something like a Lux V with an MR. What's the point of using a relay, when you can essentially make yourself:

* Sound on and off option (tunr on/off MR)
* Use the MR's light-driving leads to do some indicators
* Use the SECOND switch & circuit to power a Lux V on it's own battery source, either true direct drive, or with a resistor

SOOO much easier.