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Extension cord question
WearyTraveler
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I’ve read a couple of conflicting theories.
I have a 100’ 10/3 heavy duty cord and want to keep it on a reel. I’ve read that it’s dangerous to leave it coiled while in use. Some say to run it all out. Other say it’s ok to leave it on the reel...
Any electricians have a reason to not run it all the way out?
Please explain the reasoning...
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Yep. I would think the load would need to be somewhat continuous too, like running a shop heater or even a shop vac or something. Intermittent use with power tools that operate only for brief intervals should be completely fine, but if you say run a lot of lumber through a planer all in one go, or a sander for long duration (admittedly I can't think of a high amperage sander) you will want to be cautious about that.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Whoever says run it out uncoiled is full of BS. When you see that person tell them they have something BROWN On their lips, then tell them it's just BS, it won't rub off. Sounds like someone this person is referring to that is giving you advice.
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You might accidentally create your own small high luminosity high energy particle hadron collider and have quarks or muons everywhere or possibly intersecting storage rings leaking relativistic heavy ions...
Or have your live looped and coiled charged wires accidentally configured to reproduce Tesla's death ray...
Have you noticed any large black holes that you can't account for???
Do you have 16 or 17 miles of cord coiled up???
Is it possible that you generated:
A somewhat Bizarre pentaquark that turns out to be a new kind of subatomic 'molecule'???
Is there a Higs Hunter next to your smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector - if the battery has gone bad you might be covered with bosun god particles...
Mike
and pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.
I=E/R.