Recent content by Stemguy

pre-response to Jaus I was emailed a post that may not have been posted yet about how current is saved by not using it. What a light bulb, or a resistor in general, does is allow some current to flow through a circuit. But not all of the available current. With a water hose analogy: you can...

Thanks for your replies. I did mean parallel not series. (apparently I am not ready to use house current yet) The analogy to water is useful to me. What I was misunderstanding, among other things, was that the devices were rated to handle 120 volts. Just as one water hose is capable of...

I hope you are having an awesome day. Can you tell me why this is? I put twenty light bulbs (rated for 100 watts, 120 volts) in series in my room. They light up. It's real bright in here. Now I unplug nineteen of them. Why isn't the remaining either 20 times brighter or just explode. In...