Do you know what a drop cord is?

[Perry Holbrook]

I'm working in Richmond VA this week, setting up a booth at the logging/forestry trade show (an interesting show to attend) and needed to buy an electrical cord. Went to the local Home Depot and asked where the drop cords were and just got blank looks. So I asked for extension cords and they said aisle 13.

We have had similar experiences as we travel to different shows in various parts of the country, and even in our office with trans-planted co-workers.

I grew up in NC and called them drop cords. If you google drop cord you get sites for extension cords, I'm sure that's the correct name.

I'm just wondering if drop cord is a term we tar heels use or if some of ya'll do too?

Perry

[Michael Weber]

To me a drop cord is one of those self re-winding things that roll up into an enclosure. Mount them on the ceiling and pull them down (thus "drop cord"). Give them a pull and they re-wind.
But I live in Arkansas and we know little of the real world.

[Joe Chritz]

To me here a drop cord has always been an extension cord with a light on the end and plug. Sometimes they roll up in an enclosure and others are loose.

Joe

[Von Bickley]

Perry,

Maybe it's a Southern thing...... I call them drop cords also.

[Charlie Reals]

To me here a drop cord has always been an extension cord with a light on the end and plug. Sometimes they roll up in an enclosure and others are loose.

Joe

+1 on that, drop cords have a light and plug.

[Bob Vavricka]

+1 on that, drop cords have a light and plug.

+ another on a drop cord having a light attached.

[Michael Weber]

+1 on that, drop cords have a light and plug.

Always heard those things call "Drop Lights" Not sure why, mine always just had an regular extension cord on them. I do know you can get them that pull out of a re-winding enclosure but WTH. Fascinating subject

[Tim Morton]

we call them drop cords with no lights...and drop lights with lights....its the practicality of being a Vermonter.

[Pat Germain]

I've never heard the term "drop cord". I have heard "drop light". I lived in Southern Virginia for 17 years. "Drop cord" might be a small, regional thing.

[Jim Rimmer]

+ another on a drop cord having a light attached.

+1 on the light

[Bob Kassmeyer]

I have called drop lights both drop cords and drop lights. I always wonder why they call them drop lights though because if you drop them they don't light anymore.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I have always heard an extension cord called a drop cord with no light. I had never heard of a drop light.

[David G Baker]

Drop cord had lights. Haven't heard the term in years. Never heard of drop lights. Michigan-California-Michigan.

[Mike Langford]

I've always called a cord with a light and a plug a "Trouble Light" ('cause most of the time all they gave you was trouble )

Drop cord aka Extension cord....

[Bryan Morgan]

We call them extension cords or power cords. Drop cords sounds like something you'd use for sky diving...