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>> Coiled EHU leads are a regular source of trouble on caravan pitches. As are campers
>> who get arxey when the possibility of such overheating is mentioned.
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...that'd be me, then. In 30 years of motorhoming, I've only ever uncoiled enough EHU lead to make the connection..
Admittedly it is wound relatively loosely on an "H" type cable winder, and is 2.5mm, not 1.5mm cable, but I have never experienced even the slightest warming up.
Given that the greater long term demand is in Winter, when the coiled length is quite often under snow, the effects of any warming would be obvious.
(YMMV; mine is based on experience, and knowledge of what I have and how I use it. I would probably act differently with 1.5mm cable and a tightly wound cable drum - something, incidentally you see very often on the continent, and seldom, if ever, is it fully unwound).
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