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Originally Posted by CampTap
As a commercial electrician I would advise against leaving wires coiled up. This creates a "choke" on your power causing heat at the coils. Even with insulated cables the EMF will build in the coil creating resistance and heat. A coil of wire is basically a transformer without a core. If you were to take a steel bar and put in in tbe middle of that coil you will read voltage off the bar in accordance with your turns ratio (how many coils of wire around the 1 bar ie 4-5 to 1) when you take that rod out it builds what we call a choke which limits the flow of amperage in high voltage circuits. They also work in low voltage but are not used as often or are just called resistors. These create heat and can damage your insulation. Anyway Im blabbering.
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I like the blabbering. Trying to learn me a little something something from your point
My 50 amp cable is hard wired inside the coach and of course it it is rolled up for storage. However when in use, I have been pulling out only the length of 50 amp cable I require to reach the pedestal as to not create a tripping hazard etc. (at least minimize the hazard)
If I follow your logic, I should pull the entire cable all the way out when say I only need a few feet? If so, hat would be a lot of work to unroll and reroll?
Since it came that way from mfg what are the specific issues I should be worried about? I don't plan to stick some metal bar in the middle of the 50 amp rolled wired that is in the coach? Nor do I plan to lick a piece of wire and stick it in the 50 amp pedestal to see if it is hot I tried that as a kid on a 15 amp receptacle and it was shocking what I learned
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