Heat resulting from voltage drop?

[Almot]

Microwave cable goes (from MW cabinet) through the hole in the MW cabinet wall to the receptacle in the adjacent cabinet. No receptacle in MW cabinet. A straight plug sticking out in my cupboard, not even a flat plug, - how stupid is that?

I'm tidying things up and thinking to put a short 2ft extension cord that has a low profile plug and a cable exiting at 4 o'clock. They don't come in 14 AWG, only 16 AWG.

V-drop @14A will be 0.22V. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is a heater with 0.22*14=2.8W. Seems like nothing to worry?

[Sam_Spade]

My gut feeling is: You will be trading one "eyesore" for another one and the coiled up extra cord will end up being more problematic than the plug sticking out from the wall a bit.

I would NOT use an extension cord that is lighter gauge than the one the manufacturer has attached......on anything.

Simply putting a different style plug on the end of the existing cord might be a better solution.

[2oldman]

Unless you're running it for an hour, I wouldn't be concerned.

[road-runner]

If having company makes you feel any better, my setup is just the same with a straight plug in the cabinet. The power to my microwave is probably pretty typical: 25 foot shore cord, romex to the breaker box, romex to the slideout area, connector transition to flexible cable, transition connector back to romex in the slide, another connector where the romex comes out of the slideout wall, finally romex to the outlet the microwave is plugged into. Sometimes I'm surprised the darn thing works at all! It's all 12 gauge. I'd feel a bit uneasy using even a 14 gauge run. You could always cut the plug off the existing cord and replace it with an angle plug. They're not as slim as the one in your picture, but a lot better than the straight plug.