12F683 Light Dimmer Problem (SOLVED)

[DavyJones]

Thanks... sorry I called you Chris before I saw "Chris" instead of "Cheers" hahaha Anyway thanks.... I've got to clean up the code yet and draw up the schematic. Hopefully I will have some time later today to do that. Holiday weekend coming up so getting ready for that. I did add a little switch my father in law can switch and if he does the light will blink out "We love you dad" in morse code. I wanted it to say "Happy fathers day" but my wife vetoed that and said the latter. Bit late on fathers day I know but I got busy and had to order some of the components and they did not come in as fast as I needed them. I went back and reviewed some of the information I read about varying the phase and you are for sure right not sure how/why I got that backwards. Pretty cool little project does 60w lamp without getting warm using 1/2 watt resistors. I'm going to tweak those up to 1watt just in case. If you hold the 60w bulb on the on resistor gets just a tad warm but nothing you can't touch. 60w is going to be to bright for a little lighthouse but you never know with my father in law. I'll upload the code and schematic as soon as I have them done.

P.S. the 12F683 was not that bad to work with getting the INT pin set up. Actually got it right the first time. I had been running at 8mhz but no need took it back down to default 4mhz. There was no need to go 8mhz and use any extra power on it. I'm trying to conserve all I can I want this to run with a https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/490-PBO-1-S5 by my calculations 200ma should be more than enough for this and the other components without getting anything warm. I did not put it on there yet but hopefully will get to that today and test it out. I need to make this simple for my father in law just plug and play without external wall wart.

Regards
David