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Great, thank you. And I presume having them unwound is to do with overheating but shouldn't be an issue for 2? I can unwind and keep loosely coiled by the stand. Just curious if there's a particular threshold to remember.
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And I presume having them unwound is to do with overheating but shouldn't be an issue for 2?
Technically, with two lights you're over the limit for having the extension still on the reel. You could do a bunch of complex maths involving Ohmic heating, ambient temperature and expected airflow rates to determine how much you have to unwind to stay within the operating temperature window of the insulation, or you could just unwind the whole cable and lay it in loose coils on the floor🙂
gbj_tester
You only need one as long as the leads to the light controllers will reach from the extension to the light position, and you could run up to four of those lights from it as long as it's fully unwound from the reel.