110 V AC Power Point

[miraculon]

The owners manual states that you should not use an extension cord on the 110V AC Power Point.

WARNING: Do not keep electrical devices plugged in the power point whenever the device is not in use. Do not use any extension cord with the 110 volt AC power point, since it will defeat the safety protection design. Doing so may cause the power point to overload due to powering multiple devices that can reach beyond the 150 watt load limit and could result in fire or serious injury.

I don't see any reason that this would be the case, unless they are really referring to not using a power strip with a bunch of stuff plugged in. I am a retired EE, and I don't see why a simple extension cord would be a problem. I can understand the other items, such as motors, sensitive electronics, etc.

I ran a hot melt glue gun on about 50 ft of extension cord (16 AWG) with no problem.

I suspect that something got lost in the translation from the engineers to the owner's manual writers...

Any one know a good reason not to use a simple extension cord? I can't think of one, or why the "safety protection design" would be affected.

Greg

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[subquark]

I think a ton of things don't say to use an extension cord - probably for liability of too small a wire (too large a gauge) causing overheating of the cord itself.

They mention going over the outlet's rating with too many things.

But they have to write these guides in a way that protects them. So don't cut the extension cord with the electric hedge trimmers either ...

I think you're good. =)

 

[carnut122]

I think you're on target with too many devices plugged in at the same time. I remember trying to run a coffee maker off of mine and it wasn't up to the task so I suspect the amperage isn't sufficient to heat up and extension cord even with multiple devices plugged in.

 

[Strapper]

The owners manual states that you should not use an extension cord on the 110V AC Power Point.

WARNING: Do not keep electrical devices plugged in the power point whenever the device is not in use. Do not use any extension cord with the 110 volt AC power point, since it will defeat the safety protection design. Doing so may cause the power point to overload due to powering multiple devices that can reach beyond the 150 watt load limit and could result in fire or serious injury.

I don't see any reason that this would be the case, unless they are really referring to not using a power strip with a bunch of stuff plugged in. I am a retired EE, and I don't see why a simple extension cord would be a problem. I can understand the other items, such as motors, sensitive electronics, etc.

I ran a hot melt glue gun on about 50 ft of extension cord (16 AWG) with no problem.

I suspect that something got lost in the translation from the engineers to the owner's manual writers...

Any one know a good reason not to use a simple extension cord? I can't think of one, or why the "safety protection design" would be affected.

Greg

I don't think they expect you to charge anything more than a laptop at 150 watts. I can't see an extension cord making a difference but no expert here!

 

[miraculon]

BTW, the hot melt glue gun was 80W. This is a resistive load and just over 50% of the outlet rating.

 

[Cabose-1]

Amperage goes up. Dont know the science but the longer the cord and the more energy required the higher the amps go up. Like a starter motor or ac compressor kicking on. Lots of amps to start then it levels out. So the longer the cord the more amps required to run a device. So to take out the equation of dont run 50ft 12guage or 25ft but no less than 16 guage or whatever, just be safe and suggest no extensions.
But thats why.
I dont know the science, just enough to know it draws more amps. How much, i dunno.
Just know it does.
Youll know when the fuse goes out what the limit is. ?‍

 

[SFCHAMBERS]

As a former safety inspector I know you have to write rules, instructions for morons. You may understand that the words extension cord and zip strip are different but your average moron does not. Just like the people who don't understand their checking account has money in it even when they have checks left. Or why there is a warning on your lawn mower to keep hands and feet out from under the deck.

 

[SFCHAMBERS]

Sorry money in it.

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