Forestboy
LIFE MEMBER
Serious question from someone with not one jot of electrical knowledge.
In the UK we are constantly warned about the dangers of overheating electric cables and the potential fires should we leave them coiled. As someone who's experienced fire first hand (6 weeks in hospital) I always uncoil as fire terrifies me.
My question is no one in Europe or the USA bothers to uncoil. In fact most have huge reel extension leads and a lot of top end vans have the cable fitted on a reel in a locker so you just pull out what you need.
On a busy site in Croatia right now and all the Germans and Dutch seem to have reels. Big Concorde just pulled up and did just pull from a reel in the locker.
Got nothing better to do as we've cleaned the van changed the bedding and waiting for the roast spuds to finish for Sunday lunch. So thought I'd ask as you don't see hundreds of burnt out vans littered around.
Still intend to uncoil myself as I never want to experience another fire especially in a van.
In the UK we are constantly warned about the dangers of overheating electric cables and the potential fires should we leave them coiled. As someone who's experienced fire first hand (6 weeks in hospital) I always uncoil as fire terrifies me.
My question is no one in Europe or the USA bothers to uncoil. In fact most have huge reel extension leads and a lot of top end vans have the cable fitted on a reel in a locker so you just pull out what you need.
On a busy site in Croatia right now and all the Germans and Dutch seem to have reels. Big Concorde just pulled up and did just pull from a reel in the locker.
Got nothing better to do as we've cleaned the van changed the bedding and waiting for the roast spuds to finish for Sunday lunch. So thought I'd ask as you don't see hundreds of burnt out vans littered around.
Still intend to uncoil myself as I never want to experience another fire especially in a van.