Section 10 Motor Feeders and Starters 10.1.0 Introduction 10.1.1 Sizing Motor-Cireuit Feeders and Their Overcurrent Protection 10.12 NEC Table 430.7(B), Locked-Rotor-Indicating Code Letters 10.1.3 Motor-Cireuit Data Sheets 10.1.4 480-V System (460-V Motors) Three-Phase Motor-Cireuit Feeders 10.1.5 208-V System (200-V Motors) Three-Phase Motor-Cireuit Feeders 10.1.6 115-V Single-Phase Motor-Circuit Feeders 10.1.7 200-V Single-Phase Motor-Circuit Feeders 10.1.8 230-V Single-Phase Motor-Circuit Feeders 10.1.9 Motor Starter Characteristies (for Squirrel-Cage Motors) 10.110 Reduced-Voltage Starter Characteristics 10.111 Reduced-Voltage Starter Selection Table 10.1.0 Introduction Motors comprise a significant portion of a building’s electrical system loads. They are needed to power fans and pumps for basic mechanical building infrastructure such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing, fire protection, elevators, and escalators. They are also needed to power equipment endemic to the occupancy, such as commercial kitchen equipment in an institutional facility, CT and MRI scanners in a hospital, and process equipment such as conveyors and machinery in an industrial plant or stone quarry. Consequently, designing motor-cireuit feeders is, very much in the mainstream of the electrical design professional's daily work. To save time in this process, the following information is provided. 10.1.1 Sizing Motor-Circuit Feeders and Their Overcurrent Protection AC Single-Phase Motors, Polyphase Motors Other Than Wound-Rotor (Synchronous’ and Induction Other Than Code E") 1. Feeder wire size 125 percent of motor full-load current minimum. 2, Feeder breaker (thermal-magnetic fixed-trip type) 250 percent of full-load current 3. Feeder breaker (instantaneous magnetic-only type) 800 percent of full-load current maximum. ‘Synchronous motors af the lowsorque,low-apecd iype fasually 450 rpm or lower, such as those used to dive reciprocating campretsos, pumps, that start unloaded, do not roqure a fase rating o eiveuit breaker sating in exces of 200 percent of ful-lad curren ‘For cade E induction motors, everything isthe same as above except that ifan instantaneous magneticonly type cuit breaker is used, it shall ‘have maximum setting af 1100 percent 101