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		steadicat on Dec 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are Christmas Lights in Series or Parallel? That's not how parallel circuits work. The voltage is independent of how many devices are connected. That's how your wall plugs always provide 110V. Edit: Sorry, I misread, I thought this subthread was about parallel circuits.

raldi on Dec 16, 2014 [–]

It's not a parallel circuit. It's a series circuit. If you have 100 bulbs in series, each is getting 1.1V across it.

If half of them burn out (and, as the article explains, become a short-circuit), then you have 50 bulbs, and each is getting 2.2V across it.

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