Puddles wrote:
A cord with current passing thru it, needs to get rid of some amount of heat. A cord laid out straight, out of the sun, is better able to evaporate heat than when it's coiled up in a storage compartment.
I think you meant to say dissipate heat rather than evaporate, but I understand, nonetheless.
This is more of an issue of a resistive process and the coiled cord in an enclosed space discourages the dissipation of the heat that naturally occurs through resistance.
But at the end of the day, I think that it's not an issue for properly sized and OEM power cords. From the comments I've seen so far, I'd say this could potentially be a problem with undersized extension cords.
