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- From: unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
- Subject: Re: MELROSE PLACE NOTES (12/16)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.225528.15055@gallant.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:55:28 GMT
- References: <18684@mindlink.bc.ca> <872s03IJc5Yc00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Organization: Apple
- Lines: 11
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- In article <18684@mindlink.bc.ca> Gordon Wong, Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca
- writes:
- >[3] Billy tells Alison that she had to check every Christmas light bulb. One
- > bad bulb could short circuit the whole string. I thought one bad bulb
- > would just create an open circuit and the light just wouldn't be lit. All
- > she had to do was plug in the whole string and replace the unlit ones.
-
- Well yeah, one bad would be an open circuit, thus preventing all of the
- bulbs from lighting.. In older strings of Xmas lights, all of the bulbs
- were in series.. Now they're in parallel, so the good ones will still
- light.
-