Patent ID: 7227314

Claim:
A system for equalization of voltage across a plurality of individual means for illumination adapted for engagement to wires communicating with an electrical power supply, each of said individual means for illumination sequentially positioned further from said electrical power supply along said wires, wherein said system comprises: (a) a plurality of means for equalization of voltage across each of said individual means for illumination, (b) each of said respective plurality of said means for equalization of voltage operably interposed between one of said respective said individual means for illumination that is not located furthest from said electrical power supply along said wires and one of said wires communicating with said electrical power supply; (c) wherein the value of the combined electrical resistance of said each of said respective plurality of said means for equalization of voltage and said one of said respective said individual means for illumination that is not located furthest from said electrical power supply along said wires, to be substantially equal to the product of: (1) the value of the total electrical resistance beyond the location, along said wires, of said one of said respective said individual means for illumination that is not located furthest from said electrical power supply along said wires, up to, and including, the electrical resistance of the individual means for illumination located furthest from said electrical power supply along said wires, and (2) a ratio formed by: (i) a mathematical summation of the mathematical reciprocal of each value of internal resistance of each of said individual means for illumination located beyond said location, along said wires, up to, and including, said individual means for illumination located furthest from said electrical power supply along said wires divided by (ii) the mathematical reciprocal of the value of the internal resistance of said one of said respective said individual means for illumination that is not located furthest from said electrical power supply along said wires; whereby the voltage across said individual means for illumination sequentially located furthest from said power supply will be substantially equal to the voltage across said individual means for illumination sequentially closer to said electrical power supply along said wires.