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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
Are you sure about that? I looked at this year's rules, and could not find any requirement that a CIM or a fisher price require 40 amp breakers. Best I could tell, any motor can use any size circuit breaker, as long as the wire was sized properly.
For example, a fisher price motor can draw more then 40 amps at stall, but it will also burn itself up at stall. It may be wise to use a smaller breaker.
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You are indeed correct. The circuits on 20, 30, and 40 amp breakers must have appropriately sized wires, but there are not, as in the past, requirements that CIM's and FP's get 40A, and everything else is 20/30A.