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Unread 08-12-2003, 17:25
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Re: two separate decisions

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Originally Posted by Cory
If Im not mistaken, while it draws more current, you are drawing less current per motor since the load is being shared between four motors rather than two. Since weve all basically agreed that the main breaker isnt going to trip, this would help keep individual motors from tripping their respective 40 amp breakers.

Cory

You are right Cory, 2002 was the last time a lot of teams had problems with this. Although, I'm not sure that its simply a matter of us agreeing that it doesn't happen anymore. I remember an extremely fast machine (25) that appeared to have breaker problems in the finals at Houston last year. I don't know for sure if this was a main breaker problem or not.

Ken