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Old 05-09-2007, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by cprowler View Post
From what I understand some if not all of the large electrical motors like on the larger pumps and fans during start up will use 125% of the normal load for a few seconds to get started and then go back down to the normal wattage.

At least that’s my limited understanding of it.
Oh, ok thanks
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