What type of cord for generator
Hi, we have a small Honda em2200 generator. The in-laws gave it to us because they never used it. Two winters ago we had an extended power outage and attempted to use it. First we spent an entire day trying to figure out why it wouldn't start (had to clean out a minuscule air hole with an equally minuscule piece of wire (twist tie). Anyway, we got it going, plugged the orange extension cord we use for the leaf blower into it and discovered that the cord got hot. I've asked at Sears and Lowe's and from the looks they give me, I guess no one else has ever asked this question. We don't want one of those super generator cords that you plug into your breaker box, just one that won't get hot if we have another ice storm and we want to turn on a lamp or a space heater.