-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Landon Robinson <=-
 RJT> @MSGID: 1:270/615.0 4f665ea8
 RJT> Landon Robinson wrote in a message to Ralph Hawkins:
 
 LR> My next suggestion is a bit "left field" but will work 
 LR> according to Ohm's law.  If you can find a 12 volt bulb that 
 LR> will fit in the socket (I have no idea what a #1521 bulb looks 
 LR> like) and then wire an identical bulb in parallel to the brake 
 LR> light it will cut the resistance in half and it should light up 
 LR> to full brightness at only six volts. 
 RJT> This isn't right.
 RJT> Putting another bulb in parallel with the first one is going to make
 RJT> the overall resistance of the circuit half of what it was,  but the
 RJT> bulb itself is still going to have the same resistance and it's still
 RJT> going to pass the same amount of current as it would have before doing
 RJT> this -- you will see that the extra current will cause the _other_
 RJT> bulb to draw it's share. 
 RJT> Neither will light up to anywhere near reasonable brightness,  either.
 RJT> Have you even actually *tried* this?  I don't think so...
 RJT> email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
 RJT> -!- 
 RJT>  ! Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615)
PLEASE, please, please dis-regard what I wrote about that light bulb I was
sick with a 101 degree fever when I wrote that.  You are right that would
never work right.  Know of a deep dark hole I can hide in ?
mumble, grumble, geez.
-Landon
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