From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well... it depends on if the stones are standing upright or
not, I guess. :)
Why? Did they have too much to drink at the Solstice Party?
(Couldn't resist.)
- jmh
Should Have Maru
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At 08:29 AM 6/27/03 -0500, Horn, John wrote:
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well... it depends on if the stones are standing upright or
not, I guess. :)
Why? Did they have too much to drink at the Solstice Party?
No, it's just that the Stones are so old and wasted that they
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some
in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all
of them go off. Which can make decorating the tree with Star Trek
starships that plug into the
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some
in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all
of them go off. Which can make decorating the tree with Star Trek
At 07:03 AM 6/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some
in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all
of them go off. Which can make
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote:
BTW...if your Christmas lights burn out *during* the Christmas season,
it means that Jesus doesn't love you anymore.
G
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The Beginning Of A New Urban Legend Maru
rob
Yes, but does he love me any less? :)
And which Jesus, anyway? I mean, I've never met
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:35:51PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Nah.its for convenience. It is just a basic series parallel
circuit, so you would get 120V if you got
Huh? series parallel circuit?
I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Julia said hers were
wired in parallel.
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:35:51PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Nah.its for convenience. It is just a basic series parallel
circuit, so you would get 120V if you got
Huh? series parallel circuit?
I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Julia said
Replying to both Erik and Julia in a single message.
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Erik Reuter wrote
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Your house is wired in parallel. Does removing one lightbulb in your
house make them all go out? No, of course not. That tells me that
there is something more complex going on with these lights.
I guess you missed my post
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Your house
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:42:20PM -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Do the lamps plug in or screw in? If they plug in they likely have
a built in shunt resistor to provide continuity.
Plug in, as Julia described. And your
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Incidentally, I've definitely seen packs of bulbs labeled parallel
wiring
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Like setting your house on fire, eh Erik?
Have you ever tried shorting out the smart DC transformers that come
with things like notebook computers? They don't set on fire, they don't
even get hot. There is a circuit inside that
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The reason I ask is that Rob's hypothesis (that the string is wired in
series
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Like setting
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:20:12PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Thinking further..the easy way to tell would be to look at each
individual socket. If it is parallel, you will have 4 wires at each socket.
hot in
hot out
neutral in
neutral out
or perhaps there is an inline tap point
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
But what manufacturer is going to go to such expense for an item such
as christmas lights which have little use the rest of the year.
(hence the occams razor comment)
These things are available as a single chip solid-state DC
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
But what
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Which is what Christmas lights cost. I've obtained 100 light strings
for about $3-$4 retail. So, whatever goes into Christmas lights
really has to be cheap and cheerful.
The parallel ones I've seen cost about double that.
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
But what
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The reason I ask is that Rob's hypothesis (that the string is wired in
series
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Sure Erik, but Christmas lights are AC and why would anyone use
That is absurd. Lights (i.e., incandescent light bulbs) are not AC. They
are resistive filaments. They will work DC or AC.
an expensive (relatively) powersupply to
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:13:52PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://home.howstuffworks.com/christmas-lights2.htm
Look for the picture with the shunt wire in the lamp.
Thanks for posting that link. Looks like you called it right. It is
good to know how things work! But I'm still going to
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Sure Erik
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:13:52PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http
Erik Reuter wrote:
By the way, that shunt is interesting. How do you suppose burning a
coating off of a wire actually DECREASES the resistance? The only
explanation I can come up with is that the coating insulates the wire
and keeps it hot, and a hot wire has a higher resistance.
I was assuming
Incidentally, on the next page of the link that you found,
http://home.howstuffworks.com/christmas-lights3.htm
The more sophisticated light sets now come with 16-function
controllers that can run the lights in all sorts of interesting
patterns. In these systems, you typically find a
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
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Incidentally, on the next page of the link that you found,
http
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:31:27PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
By the way, that shunt is interesting. How do you suppose burning a
coating off of a wire actually DECREASES the resistance? The only
explanation I can come up with is that the coating insulates the wire
and
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:12:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Have you seen the rice lights? Exquisite!
I don't think so, unless there is another name for them. What the heck
is a rice light?
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:12:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Have you
Erik Reuter wrote:
Another interesting question. I can't think of any quick way to check
if your 240V bulbs are the same as our 120V ones. I assume yours look
like the picture of the 2.5V mini-bulbs in the link?
Even the packaging looks identical - they would all come out of the same
factory
At 12:01 PM 6/25/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
On the other hand... I have a tee shirt that has a
picture of Stonehenge and
says, Orthodox Druid on it. I like the shirt
because it's a joke -- there
is no such thing as orthodoxy among
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:27:26 -0500
At 12:01 PM 6/25/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Reggie
--- Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Reggie Bautista wrote:
lots of snippage
On the other hand... I have a tee shirt that
has a picture of Stonehenge and
says, Orthodox Druid on it
I gave a similar shirt to
In a message dated 6/25/2003 2:47:17 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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grin
They do have Solstice Parties, and they own LofR on
DVD; his wife (a fellow equestrienne, who in fact
introduced me to Darby and the neighborhood 'horsey
set') and I have organized Winter
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Wait, if one bulb goes out, they all go out, no? How'd they do that?
Aren't those things linear circuits?
You mean wired in series. The cheapest ones are, and all of the older
ones I've seen. But in the past 5-10 years I've noticed
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:46:25 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ronn
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:19:24 -0400
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Wait
Jon Gabriel wrote:
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:19:24 -0400
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