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An 'isolator' (UK terminology) or 'disconnect' (US terminology) are generally not designed to break a load current. The circuit must first be broken using a circuit breaker. If an isolator were to be opened 'on load', then it's likely to draw an arc which it has no means of breaking. The heat produced by that arc is likely, then, to damage the isolator's contacts.

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