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Motors have a large start-up current and represents an inductive load. Accordingly, any device used to switch the motor must be capable of handing and breaking currents without any resulting arcing damaging the switch contacts. Therefore, even fractional-horsepower (<1000 W) motors, must be controlled using 'contractors' -i.e. heavy-duty, electromagnetically-operated, switches. Furthermore, it's dangerous to control a motor from devices without 'no volt' protection -i.e. a switch that will not allow the motor to restart by itself following the restoration of a power failure.

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