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Actually, you /do/ get a breaker that trips before the Jaguar- except only in theory. The jaguar protection is electronic and trips based on the combination of current and length of time drawn. It will allow 40 amps forever, 60 amps for 2 seconds, and something like 100amps for a fraction of a second (an exponential curve) before tripping. However, even with this extra allowance, the electronic protection will trip long before the breakers. If I recall correctly, the mechanism inside the breakers triggers based on temperature, so they can take bursts of current rather easily before they finally heat up and trip. That last sentence was mostly dim-memory, though as a former driver tasked with playing D, I can assure you that the jaguars trip long before the breakers.


And ditto on the gear ratio: When I was looking to motorize my bike, I was considering how to run two CIMples in series for a 25:1 ratio. And that was just to get a good top speed, I wasn't even going to hope for any sort of acceleration.