Drum wrote:
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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.
I would think that this "heat" issue would be primarily where the wire is tightly wound on a drum, like the electronic retrieval ones, not so much where it is loosely splayed around the inside of a compartment. there was much air space around mine as I recall. I suppose one could take their IR thermometer and check it out if curious.
bumpy
