Might not be the saw alone.

Depending on the weather and local power use, your line voltage might be a
little low.

This causes the motor to pull more amps and therefore run hotter.

Also causes thermal breakers to pop.

Where I live it is not unusual to see our 120 VAC drop to 100 to 102 on hot
summer days.









"Eigenvector" wrote in message
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I was cutting some 16/4 poplar on the tablesaw and got halfway through it
when the saw stopped dead.

At first I thought the blade had simply stopped but then I realized the
motor was completely off. Breaker on the tablesaw has popped. Once I
reset it and gave the motor some time to cool down it worked just fine.

I've never had anything like that happen to me so I'm wondering, what was
the principle cause. Obviously without being there no one can nail it
down, but in general would this be due to a dull blade and too fast a feed
rate or simply overuse/misuse of the saw? I'd probably run 20 feet of
this stuff through the saw prior. Let me be clear, I don't have a saw
that can cut 4+ inches in one pass, so I was having to cut, then flip and
finish the cut (and maybe that's the big no-no here)