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oh, one thing i did notice neon, no one has used any equations to try to explain anything......

i though about a few, but figured i be better off sticking with the water....

The water model does make things relatively easy to understand. The one thing that it doesn't answer for me is, take my QS8's.... If placed within 10 feet or so they only require 16 guage wire, (or a very narrow pipe). But in my situation they are about 40 feet from the power source, so I was advised to go with either 14 or 12 guage wire (a thicker pipe).

Is this because the voltage supplied isn't sufficient to "push" that current that far? Or is there another property of electricity that the water model doesn't account for?

It is the resistance to flow of the smaller gauge wire, over long distances, the smaller wire builds up to much resistance within itself over that length, while a larger wire has less resistance over a longer length. We are now getting into new terminology here as well, inductance, impedance etc. the finer qualities of electrical theory.