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Glade it worked out, by what you described most things leaned toward a chinkeneese circuit breaker in the strip. Couple of surge trips and they get pretty weak, never liked the things. Hard to beat good heavy wire connections. Might occasionally feel and inspect the ext. cord after a period of use, never hurts. Might even be good to touch the panel circuit breaker for that connection with the back of your knuckle from time to time. Warms pretty normal, but alarmingly hot means you need to call in an electrician.

Why the back of your knuckle (or hand) you might ask - you can still use your hand if you get a burn on the back side, but might not be able to if you burn the inside curve. Also any muscle contraction will automatically cause you to jerk away from the source of stimulus (best direction if you know what I mean).