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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
Horizon170 wrote:
Do what you want but an electric cord wrapped in a circle is an electromagnet less an iron core.


OK so here we go again with quoting minutia that is questionable to just plain wrong.

As was pointed out earlier, the current flow in the two conductors of an AC power cord is equal (hopefully) and opposite. With those conditions, any magnetic field creates is tiny and localized.

UNDER ANY NORMAL CONDITIONS, IT IS NOT A FACTOR IN ANYTHING.
It just is not.

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