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If the street lighting was truly in series, then the current would be the same all along the path. Perhaps you meant something different.
by Johnythree 3y ago
If the street lighting was truly in series, then the current would be the same all along the path. Perhaps you meant something different.
- ggm 3y agoI must have because the quality as said was "dimmer at the far end" but you know, tales told to small children, maybe it was electrical engineers humour? https://bpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/sites.uoguelph.ca/dist/1/170/files/2023/02/EL-LEB-txt_mp_2.pdf https://bpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/sites.uoguelph.ca/dist/1/170/f... discusses the electrification of london from the 1880s. There was mixed AC and DC supply for some time. Ferranti led efforts to switch to AC and deploy a huge (for the time) AC system. The article says both that DC supply persisted into the 1950s and was uneconomic for transmission beyond about 1.5miles. Maybe that's the root of "lights getting dimmer"