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Question about Why is a replaced bulb in this strand of Christmas lights dimmer than the original?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask or not but I had an electrical question. If you have a strand of mini-lights that are 2.5v 5 V 0.25 watt on a 300 watt strand, it's normally broken into blocks of 50 bulbs in series. If you replace one of the bulbs with a 2.5v 5 V 0.42 watt bulb, then the bulb burns dim and is barely noticeable. I don't understand why a 2.5v5 V bulb wouldn't burn at its rated watts and would instead burn dim (even dimmer than 0.25 watts that the original bulb burned at). Any

Any idea what's going on and how I can approach understanding this?

Question about Christmas lights

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask or not but I had an electrical question. If you have a strand of mini-lights that are 2.5v .25 watt on a 300 watt strand it's normally broken into blocks of 50 bulbs in series. If you replace one of the bulbs with a 2.5v .42 watt bulb then the bulb burns dim and barely noticeable. I don't understand why a 2.5v bulb wouldn't burn at its rated watts and would instead burn dim (even dimmer than .25 watts that the original bulb burned at). Any idea what's going on and how I can approach understanding this?

Why is a replaced bulb in this strand of Christmas lights dimmer than the original?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask or not but I had an electrical question. If you have a strand of mini-lights that are 2.5 V 0.25 watt on a 300 watt strand, it's normally broken into blocks of 50 bulbs in series. If you replace one of the bulbs with a 2.5 V 0.42 watt bulb, then the bulb burns dim and is barely noticeable. I don't understand why a 2.5 V bulb wouldn't burn at its rated watts and would instead burn dim (even dimmer than 0.25 watts that the original bulb burned at).

Any idea what's going on and how I can approach understanding this?

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Question about Christmas lights

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask or not but I had an electrical question. If you have a strand of mini-lights that are 2.5v .25 watt on a 300 watt strand it's normally broken into blocks of 50 bulbs in series. If you replace one of the bulbs with a 2.5v .42 watt bulb then the bulb burns dim and barely noticeable. I don't understand why a 2.5v bulb wouldn't burn at its rated watts and would instead burn dim (even dimmer than .25 watts that the original bulb burned at). Any idea what's going on and how I can approach understanding this?