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Winged_One
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Jul 30, 2015

Electrical cord wrapped in a circle cause problems?

Several weeks back was at a private campground. The owner and another fellow were trying to work out a lack of ground on their 50 amp connection (this really is neither here nor there). Anyway, th...
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Vulcan_Rider
Explorer
Jul 31, 2015
kellertx5er wrote:

I don't think that uncoiling the cord would have made any difference in this case.


Well it might have.
And having it coiled OUTSIDE probably was a good thing.

Without the coiled section, the entire length of the cord might have overheated to the point of ignition before the problem was noticed.

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