At 15:40 05/17/99 -0500, Adam Bryant wrote:
>Thanks for the clarification.  Not having a hardware background, I tend
>to envision the battery "pushing" the current through the circuit, rather
>than the device "pulling" the current it needs.  If I could only keep
>that in mind, I could probably answer a lot of my own questions without
>having to bug you guys and gals.

for these purposes, you can often simplify a bit and imagine your whole
circuit as one resistor (sometimes variable like a potentiometer).

ge