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Cord ampacities



Having just heard an interesting story about melting a 14 gauge extension
cord pulling 50 amps plus through it, I have added a handy table of
flexible cord ampacities to my hv web pages.

http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~jimlux/hv/cordamp.htm

 And, yes, the numbers are fairly conservative from the NEC.