Yellow Jacket 2883 12/3 Heavy-Duty 15-Amp SJTW Contractor Extension Cord with Lighted Ends; 25-Feet

As advertised and decent quality.

Pourrais etre un peut moin rigide plus flexible encore

Yellow Jacket Is a great product used it with my electric snow blower I am loving it and would purchase it again!

nice quality and it sure helps to run bigger appliances without the cord heating up.

Needed this for electric lawn mower. Works very well. Heavy duty enough to use with another 50 ft. cord to give more cutting area.

I have a masters degree in mech engineering, so naturally I took a close look at why this cords female plug heats up and burns out creating a safety hazard. The design problem is the female plugs dont have a proper spring-loaded contacts. This means that when you connect a male plug to this extension cord, the prongs of the male plug are LOOSE inside the Yellow Jacket cords female plug, and do NOT make reliable (low-resistance) connection because this cord has no spring-loaded contacts to squeeze onto the prongs of the male plug. So eventually this results in a poor (high-resistance) connection that heats up and burns out the female plug on the Yellow Jacket extension cord.

I got this to mostly use with an electric Makita chain saw. The quality is excellent and I am very pleased. I would recommend this cord to anyone needing a heavy duty cord. Its obvious it is made to last well.

This is a basic HEAVY DUTY 100foot extension cord with a 12/3 wire size. For those new to extension cord wire sizes, the lower the first number, the better... so 10 is better than 12, and 8 is better than 10. When I say better, I mean that the lower gauge (lower numbered) cords actually use a thicker wire, which contains more metal, (hopefully copper!) and thus have a better ability to conduct electricity flow, which means more power to that item which is being supplied electricity by the cord. Many home power outlets supply a maximum of 15 amps of electricity, which is about 1875 watts, but in order to convey all of that electricity through an extension cord, without excessive losses, the cord must be a bit heftier than the 16/3 size 100ft. cords you buy for $20 to $30 at hardware stores, warehouse clubs, and various other stores. You really dont need a cord this thick to power most home appliances, and tools. You can run almost any 120volt device with a 16/3 thickness extension cord; however there are some applications which call for a cord of this thickness. Once such application is an electric chainsaw I recently purchased which draws a full 15 amps of power. This was the minimum thickness of 100 foot cord that was advisable for said electric chainsaw. Extension cords are not high on features. This one does have lighted ends, which are nice lets say if you have a power outage, and you turn on your generator, at night, and then run an extension cord from your generator into the house... at least youll be able to see the female end of the cord, in the dark, so that you may plug a light into it, or instead plug in your TV if that has a higher priority. This is a nice extension cord and there are many cords, at local stores, which are less expensive but appear to have the same thickness as this one. This is an illusion! If stores are selling a 100ft. cord which is as thick as this one, and the price is much lower, its because their cord is a small wire cord which has a very very thick plastic insulation around it. Thick plastic insulation is a gimmick and is no substitute for the numbers. The numbers for this cord are 12/3 and the numbers for the cheaper immitation at your local store are probably much higher and thus much inferior. Remember, plastic does not conduct electricity, so you dont want thick plastic... you want thick metal. With quality cords, such as this one, the metal wire inside the plastic insulation is copper and thick copper at that! Copper is super expensive, so when you pay that extra money to get this cord, its because you are paying for all that copper... and you will know it when you hold this cord because it is noticeably heavier than the cheapy cords. Buy this cord and hold onto it for 20 years, and you might be able to melt it down, for the copper, and finance your kids education with the money from selling the copper... but, dont hold your breath on the price of copper going to $6000 per pound. If you do buy this 12/3 cord, youll appreciate that it is almost impossible to get this cord permanently twisted and tangled, which invariably happens to the 16/3 cheapy cords. Seniors would do well to think twice before buying this cord, though, because some may liken moving this cord around to dragging an elephant by the tail. For everyone else who needs a thick, quality, HEAVY DUTY extension cord, this one fits the bill nicely.

Very nice chord. Works great. What else is there to say.

Heavy duty, high quality extension cord and made in the US. Great product!