[penguicon-general] Food track - Take 2

[chuck child]

I should know better than be loose with my language on a group like this.
High Amperage systems was what I should have said, you are one hundred
percent correct.

And I agree completely with your statement about extension cords.  The
standard one are, AFAIC, fires waiting to happen.   I figure I should be
able to draw, through one extension cord, enough current to blow it's
associated breaker, without producing unusual heating .. . A attitude I
received from my father, when we were wiring houses, and he showed me the
process of Making a good extension cord. . . And explained that the other
ones mostly suck because the manufacturers want a pretty easy to flex cord,
so they use braided copper (or aluminum), and then are too cheap to use
enough of it to handle a real current load.

I hate it when companies use cheap as an excuse to risk lives, and then
think warning labels covers their responsibility.

Anyway, back off my soap box.

-Chuck


On 2/15/07, Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/15/07, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yep, High voltage draw items, like popcorn poppers, electric heaters,
> > and hair dryers can be extremely touchy about cheap extension cords.
> >
>
> Nitpick: These are not "high voltage draw" items. They plug into, and
> receive, the same 110 volts as everything else. They are a high current
> (amps) draw. High current is what blows fuses and pops circuit breakers, and
> melts cheap extension cords (which, when you get right down to it, are just
> a type of fuse....)
>
>
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