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holstein13
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Nov 08, 2015

Do coiled power cords heat up and cause fires?

I've heard many folks on this forum say that if you leave a power cord coiled up or don't roll it out all the way, it will heat up and could eventually catch fire. This seems extraordinary to me si...
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Sam_Spade
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Nov 09, 2015
tenbear wrote:

Edit: Depending on the on the phase difference of the 2 legs, the power could be much less.


With most commonly used power company transformer feeds, you only have two choices for "phase difference" 0 and 180.

Even with industrial 3-phase service, the phase differences are fixed.

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