Placement of resistors.

I had a techie trainee do just that once... he asked me what I thought of that and I replied that he hadn't given it much thought, why should I?. He did as his thoughts directed and powered it up... it took about a minute for it to be over, was interesting to watch... much like popcorn they went off each brighter than the one before randomly (they were in a circle), I had his check ready for him when he went on break... because he plugged in 10 more led's and tried it again. I asked him why and he replied that he thought he had some defective led's... the first time, he hand't an answer for the second attempt.
Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting different results.
I see a lot of that here too... LOL

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