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Default Motor temperature rise of class F insulation

Ignoramus21117 wrote:
Due to having found a 7.5 HP single phase motor, I swapped the three
phase motor on my compressor for a single phase Marathon motor:

http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Quin...e-Phase-Motor/

What surprised me was that this 7.5 HP motor has insulation class F


and, apparently, it would be normal to see a rise in temperature to
311 degrees F during continuous operation, at maximum ambient


FAIL