>> (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).
I'm thinking of the standard orange open drum as supplied by accessory shops etc.
Somebody used one of the fully enclosed drum types, as sold by Robert Dyas on Fleet St, to run a large (ie commercial size) coffee filter machine for meetings of the Quango. That certainly started to overheat but fortunately it tripped.
Most people don't get the watts/volts/amps relationship. One place I worked had a power bar under the desk with each socket fused at 3amps. Staff member could not understand why a fan heater, supplied for days when the office heating was sub optimal, wouldn't work for more than a few seconds.
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