I don't mean to come across rude, so my apologies if I do.
I've been searching for 3 weeks now, I have a circuit building book from Radio Shack that's about 150 pages long that I've read from cover to cover, I've consulted with a guy who's been working on circuits for 40 years, I've searched this forum and other forums, utilized google and did as much self teaching as I could to do, to come up with this circuit as I can see it must be relatively simple. I am a newb when it comes to circuitry which I understand is a limiting factor when this isn't my profession, and I haven't taken course upon course on designing circuits.
I came here as a last resort because everything I come up with either tells me to use an ammeter or arduino. The ammeter will not give me the results I need and the Arduino goes against the concept of the project which is to produce a relatively simple machine that doesn't have processors that can go haywire.
If this isn't something I can get help with, I will go elsewhere, my apologies if I shouldn't be asking for beginners help...