Good morning aarg, just wanted to update you and doug on my progress. So I tested my circuit with a wall wart and the circuit worked, the only problem is that I'm prototyping with a breadboard and the breadboard power adaptor I have seems to be limiting the current available to the whole circuit, so while the circuit works perfectly with one LED strip, the moment I add the second one the relay's power LED's start to dim and the LED's light up perfectly. So I think its current limitations that are hurting the circuit. I will be getting my hands on some protoboard today and some solder and will try powering the circuit with a bigger battery through a power converter. I will let you know if I make any significant progress. Thanks again.