parallel circuits

A parallel circuit is a very power efficient type of circuit.
All consumers will take all the available voltage equally if connected in a parallel circuit.

The circuit has the same componants as any other circuit (powersource, bulbs, wiring etc), but instead of being connected in series (one after the other) the componants (or bulbs in this case) are connected in parallel (hence parallel circuit). Here is a picture to show you what i mean by connected in parallel.

If the bulbs are connected in parallel they will have the same voltage across all ends as the current will comeback together in the end.

The Parallel circuit was assembled and put to the test.
The switch on the circuit was turned on and the result was that all 3 bulbs glowed with the same brightness.
Rather than in a series circuit were each bulb would get dimmer 1 after the other, the parallel circuit however will have all bulbs glowing with the same brightness (as said before).