Doc Green your mistaken in the notion that a bulb in SERIES has different levels of brightness depending upon its placement in a group of bulbs. That logic is for a TWO-WIRE line with loads placed in parallel at different points along its length. Not a series circuit.
In a series circuit all points exhibit the same magnitude of electric current, unlike the parallel circuit discussed above. So from this logic any number of bulbs in series all share the same current and hence I^2*R heating. Making each, aside from manufacturing tolerances, demonstrate the same light output.
Not here to be a circuit nerd, just pointing out a basic err in logic. Although, it is pretty cool to see the bulbs light with out a physical return wire (displacement currents at work here?), RF magic at its best I suppose.
In a series circuit all points exhibit the same magnitude of electric current, unlike the parallel circuit discussed above. So from this logic any number of bulbs in series all share the same current and hence I^2*R heating. Making each, aside from manufacturing tolerances, demonstrate the same light output.
Not here to be a circuit nerd, just pointing out a basic err in logic. Although, it is pretty cool to see the bulbs light with out a physical return wire (displacement currents at work here?), RF magic at its best I suppose.
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