/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I'm doing the "Learn by Discovery" book of the "Make.." series. There is this experiment with the 2N222A transistor that its not working for me.

I ran the simulations and it works (because the only video of this exercise that exists shows a previous version).

I can also post a screenshot of how I have it but it isn't much different aside from having a slider switch instead of a pushbutton (I tried two different switch already).

Voltage into the collector sits at 12V when the switch is not pressed but in the base its at 11.6-11.8V and at the emitter is at 4-5V even if the button is not pressed. If pressed, the voltage simply stays solid.

I tried two different 2N2222 models and my multimeter throws 150+ hFE values for both so I don't think they are broken.