[sdiy] my annual DIY holiday project

[Cornutt, David K]

From: Paddock, Toby [mailto:tpaddock at seanet.com]
> Also, I was thinking that a string of non-blinking bulbs 
> would be good in
> series with something you wanted to power up slowly. 

Back in the days of fuse boxes rather than breakers,
electricians used to test new installations by turning
on the mains (with no fuses installed), and then screwing
a light bulb into each fuse socket in series.  If there
was a short, the bulb lit, and it limited the current.