electrical cord

navegator wrote:
As you place the corde in the oppening twist and turn the cord so that it corck screws into the hole instead of trying to push it in.

It should look like a tight coil inside the box, I have a Coachmen Catalina Sport and that is how I coil the cord in, it takes a few times to get the hang of it.

navegator

That is a better idea than mine.

Hi,

Try to put it in at -30 F. You will soon wish you had cut the cable (leave a foot or two) and put on the male end.

I do a combination of the two ideas.
When the weather is warm and we are going to be staying for more than just one night, I fight with the cord and coil it in.
For a one-nighter or cold weather, I leave the cord coiled in its space and add a 30 amp extension cord to the end. The extension cord is much easier to coil, even when cold. I know the extra length will add to the voltage drop, but we usually aren't running the AC in cold weather and we keep an eye on the amount of "juice" we use.

Hi JohnM,

Voltage drop is not the worry. A coiled cord carrying a lot of current will heat. If it gets hot enough......

pianotuna wrote:
A coiled cord carrying a lot of current will heat. If it gets hot enough......

Uh oh.. now you've done it.

2oldman wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
A coiled cord carrying a lot of current will heat. If it gets hot enough......

Uh oh.. now you've done it.

ditto that ... I had a couple of these

that heated up and melted. They were NOT overloaded based on appliance wattage and had survived a year of use before I got the neatnic bug and coiled them up.

EM,

I have the same RV. I sent you an Email of how I coil my power cord into the hole/box in less than a minute.

I don't plug into the generator receptacle unless I forsee using the generator.

Tim