dfm wrote:
"""However, if you try to power your RV with a 50' coil of 16 gauge wire, you can melt it. """"
I was walking my dog a couple of years ago and passed by a trailer where they were using a 50 foot extension to their 30 amp cord and the full length of the 16/3 cord was on fire. Amazingly they still had power to their trailer when I knocked on their door to tell them. The 50 foot extension was not coiled .
OP here, I believe that both of you are describing a resistive effect on the wire causing it to heat up and not an inductive effect. I have no doubts that wires could heat up and melt due to resistance when using a smaller gauge wire extension cord. I'm mostly curious is there is an inductive effect that we should be concerned about when we use coiled wires.
