🚀 go-pugleaf

  I want to make a 'box' with LEDs monitoring the 1-8 and 20 pins
and breakers/jumpers/switches to be able to adjust the layout of
the connections between two devices connected to the 'box'.  The
breakers/jumpers/switches part doesn't seem so hard to do, but I want
the LED's to operate off the connected devices power...  However, I
don't want the LED's to distort the signals.  One idea was to have 
all of the LED's accross FG and RTS with PNP transitors to control
the LED's by using the desired signal at the base.

ex. TD
	      RTS
	       |
	    resistor
	       |
	     diode
	       |
	       |
	     |--
	TD --|
	     |<-
	       |
	      FG

   Will this be fairly reliable?  Am I confused on the PNP transistor?
Is the idea a flop due to some aspect of electronics or rs232 that I
don't know/understand?

   Also, would someone point me towards some designs for rs232 breakout
boxes?   Any other related comments that you might think I would find
helpful or just interesting?

Al