On 2013-06-21, Karl Townsend wrote:

Putting two parallel connected motors on two panel breakers makes zero
sense to me.

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its for failures. lets assume a wire insulation fails and contacts
ground. what do you want to have happen?.

Or a bearing burns out, or or or

Try to think how exacTLY the current will flow. For example, it may
want to flow to the big motor through the small breaker. Or, if the
small breaker trips, it will still get power through the big motor.