pianotuna wrote:
Hi Drum,
There are no stupid questions.
The cord tends to coil as it is pushed in. If it is carry 30 amps @ 120 volts it may start to get hot because of the coiling. Therefore it is better to cut it off, leaving a couple of feet.
Drum wrote:
This may be a stupid question, but why cut the cord? You've got the male end at the hole anyway, so why not just plug it into a separate RV extension cable without cutting off the existing one? Then you've got extra cable to pull out in case you ever have a need for the extra length.
Okay, that makes some sense. My next stupid question is: Does it really "coil" in the box? I have a hard time making a decent coil when I've got a whole cable from end to end. I was assuming that by pushing it back in the hole, it went in there as a jumbled up wad with air space mixed in. Still too hot?
I'm asking this not to argue, but I just bought a long 30 amp extension cable for hooking up to a far away source a couple of weeks ago, and I was considering doing this very thing for future outings. Plus, when I've got it hooked up at my house, there's only about 10 feet of the cable pulled out.
