Rich Willbanks wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
RJT> 
 RW> I'm fairly sure you are kidding but just in case.  No,
 RW> NO, -=NO!=-  
That's why I put the  in there...
 RW> Neither of these should be ran from a extension cord unless it 
 RW> is a heavy duty one.  Your average house hold cord just isn't 
 RW> designed to handle the load.  Now I know that the dryer isn't 
 RW> going to be ran for that long at a time but the biggest thing I 
 RW> run off one of those little bitty cords is my drill.
I've got a 100 foot cord that I use from time to time to run my drill 
outside, and it doesn't do all that well,  tending to run hot.  I believe 
it's 16 gauge.  I probably oughta invest in something a litle heavier one of 
these days...
RJT> I'd like to see a place wired with adjacent outlets on 
RJT> different circuits. 
 RW> For the most part my house is.  Most rooms have at least 3 
 RW> outlets and usually at least one is on a different circuit then 
 RW> the other two and the light. But for some reason the bathroom 
 RW> only has ONE 110 VAC outlet.  It also has, strangely enough, a 
 RW> 220 VAC outlet.  Seems the guy who built the house heated with 
 RW> a wood stove but used 220 VAC electric heaters from time to 
 RW> time.  So he put 220 outlets in several rooms.
I was flipping through some old papers last night and came across copies of 
an article written for Byte magazine in which Steve Ciarcia discussed the 
idea of a computer-controlled wood stove.  He had some interesting things to 
say in there...
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