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Default Multi-Wire or Edison Circuit questions

On Mar 30, 5:41*pm, dpb wrote:
On 3/30/2011 4:30 PM, wrote:
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Only one POSSIBLE result.


Well, if I think of it as a voltage divider, the 200W-er is roughly 4X
the R of the 50W and thus the voltage drop will be about 80% across
it...R1/(R1+R2)

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Nope, higher wattage bulb is going to have the lowest resistance.

Jimmie