> So am I missing some key part that would help from draining
> the battery?  LED's shouldn't drain a 9 volt battery that quickly
> and the buzzer is almost never on.  Really, only 1 or 2 led's
> are lit at any given time and they're really low volt led's.

Shay, a typical zinc-carbon PP3-type 9V battery is probably 150-
200mAh capacity. 2 LEDs, 5mA each = 15-20 hours

BTW you did mean to say the LEDs are "low current" rather than
"low volt" ? A 1" piece of wire is very "low volt" but would take
rather a lot of mA to "drive" it ;-))

There are several ways around your problem, some quick 'n' easy,
some not

- super-ultrabright LEDs and a higher value resistor

- make a battery from AAs, which have higher mAh than a PP3

- reduce voltage to PIC range and flash LEDs (you could also
make a gated oscillator from CMOS)

etc etc etc


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