Except that's not how a flash bulb works.
A single-use flash bulb is a one-shot chemical reaction. IIRC. It works nothing like an LED or even an incandescent filament. In any case the bulb runs off a capacitor discharge, not the power source directly. You're more likely to make the capacitor go bang.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:07, 1 reply)

and that would in no way
generate an enormous electrical flash and possibly result in all flashes in the cube going off at once?
( evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 23:25, closed)

Unless I'm mistaken
and I'm not, because I've inadvertantly stuck my fingers on the terminal of a flash capacitor, the flash uses around 15,000 volts, whereas mains uses 240.

The ampage is the reverse, mains is far higher than the flash.

Would 240 even be enough to set off a flash? I'm quite sure it would mightily fuck everything up, so going pop would make sense, but would it be a very bright pop?

(edit) answers below seem to say it wouldn't make any difference.
(username failed moderation, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 8:45, closed)