Hi,
The book mentioned as far as I remember, a kickback  diode should be in
circuitry in parallel with the load which is LED in your case, to protect
the transistor from static for on/off cycles. Looks like transistor is gone
at the beginning of the tests.
Alex

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:12:34 -0700 (PDT), mzimmers
> <[email protected]> declaimed the following:
>
>
> >Dennis: I tried your test, and it does indeed work the same way (PWR:
> >bright, GND: dim). I also tried GPIO1_16 (I originally used GPIO1_17 per
> >the instructions) with the same result.
> >
> >
> >Looks like I fritzed the transistor, huh?
> >
>         That would be my feelings... You have a transistor that is not
> completely blocking current flow.
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