On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:18:35PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > During our back and forth challenges I hit upon something close to the > mark.
Yes, you did. :-) The main reason I was skeptical was that for the first few messages you seemed to completely ignore several things that had been written (by myself and Julia), and your explanation wasn't very logically presented. To me, it looked like: "blah blah blah shunt resistor blah blah blah". Also, I had never realized they put those clever coated shunts in those mini-light bulbs (that is really the key to the whole thing, if you think about it, since a simple resistor would not work very well because it would wastefully dissipate about the same power as the bulb and once a lot of bulbs burned out on the string the remaining bulbs would be getting a lot less current which would dim the remaining bulbs) When I think about how complex these bulbs are, I am amazed that they can make them for a few cents. Those bulb manufacturing experts are really clever! -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
