"Don't trust every schematic you find on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
Seriously, folks, make sure to verify a schematic you find on the Google-machine. I cooked a couple parts by following the directions...Luckily, it was only a $2 lesson...
+50 Internets to the person who finds the mistake...Otherwise, it's a cool little design. I'm still fiddling with it, and will likely make my own schematic/layout for others when I get done. Really is a simple/cheap design.
You win the internets! I blame my unfamiliarity with voltage doublers for not catching it before the smoke...
I also didn't like the inputs, so I wired them a bit differently. Not bad for a budget build. I will try to update that schematic to my "as-built" version in its own thread later.
This is just my very biased and possibly deranged opinion, but as with schematics, many TABS on the internet are horrendously far away from reality. I ascribe this to all the meth freaks unable to sleep, doing them while they are totally out of it, and then posting anyway.