Schematics (understanding and drawing them)

I’m known to occasionally draw my schematics by hand, especially when sketching out a new design, but otherwise I mostly use EasyEDA these days. A lot of people use and like KiCad, which is a bit more powerful but it’s 2020 and I don’t install software if I don’t have to :smiley:

So what is your circuit supposed to do? I see a 5 V battery (is that a thing?), two LEDs without current-limiting resistors, so they’ll die almost immediately, and two variable resistors that don’t do much, except consuming 5/5000 = 1 mA at one end, or shortening the battery and damaging themselves at the other end. That’s probably not what you set out to build :smiley:

(I can guess what you’re aiming for, but explaining it to yourself in terms of your schematics might be a more useful exercise.)

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