Posted by Dan-IA on January 02, 2010 at 07:47:29 from (66.43.223.67):
I hear this trotted out at me regularly, an outright accusation that my outdoor extension cords and trouble lights are too light a cord to be running electric motors or battery chargers.
In this particular case I was running my electric log splitter off a trouble light. Between it and the extension cord I think I might be running 40 feet or so of 14ga wire and the electric log splitter runs the motor intermittently (only when the ram is pushing) and it is a 1500W motor on the splitter.
So is there an obvious and simple way to know if I'm overextending my wire? I havent noticed the wire getting warm and don't check voltage drop or anything, if it runs I use it.
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