CR, Wow! Thanks for doing that!
I've spent the morning working on some diagrams. They are really more like concept-sketches. I'm probably not using the symbols all correctly, but hopefully it will help illustrate. Let me explain what my project is, and then I'll show you the diagram.
I am a youth swimming coach - have been for 15 years. I would like to make an LED chaser-string that I can submerge underwater so that my swimmers can see it while they are swimming. I will then set the LED's to light up in sequence at a desired "swimming pace" so that the kids can race the light that they see underwater.
A pool is 75 feet long. I'm going to space the LED's just under 2 feet apart. I thought to use 8 banks of 5 lights (40 LED's total) because it will use much less wire than running 40 individual circuits, and much less circuit controls.
The reason I am using 5 "tubes" is because it needs to be convenient to pull the lights out of the water and store them. A 75 foot tube isn't convenient, but five 15 foot tubes that can be connected and unplugged is much more useful.
I did this diagram with them in parallel, but I'm not committed to it.
URL to Diagram: http://tinyurl.com/2auet4u
Thanks again!
-Ryan