Yeah, I’ve been staring at the wiring layout all night, trying to turn it into a weighted graph. The trick is to assign each bulb a node and every interlink a weighted edge that reflects its current draw and voltage drop. Then I can run a minimum‑cost flow algorithm to figure out which paths to activate during a charge cycle so the total loss stays under the 1.2‑volt threshold. The only hiccup is that the bulbs keep changing firmware and throwing new power‑management quirks at me, so the graph keeps shifting like a bad dream. Still, if I get it right, we’ll have a charging protocol that’s both elegant and brutally efficient—though I doubt anyone will want to pay the cost of installing it.

Yeah, dynamic weights are a nightmare—every firmware bump feels like the graph rewires itself. I’d roll with a sliding‑window min‑cost flow, recomputing only when the change exceeds, say, a 10% variance in edge weight. Or I could pre‑generate a handful of “best‑case” paths and just flip between them when the LEDs gossip a new power profile. Keeps the CPU from blowing up and the bulbs from fighting each other. Still, if the cost goes up, I’ll have to design a lightweight heuristic that runs on a 32‑bit microcontroller, because nobody wants a full‑blown server in their living room.