Thanks Darrell... you always come to the rescue.... I will try this out tomorrow. You redrew my schematic nicely, but I did have the emitter going to ground (btw, which program do you use?)... Is there a difference in connecting the load between emitter and ground, or between collector and vdd (besides resistance increasing base to ground when the load is on the emitter side)? For power I try to stay mobile. Here I used just a 9V battery, 7805, 100nFcap, and an electrolytic cap.... Eventually I will be using 4 or 5 of these motors and probably a seperate power supply...