I am involved in the material handling industry and would agree with penpoint. You look at a typical Start/Stop pushbutton and you see Green for Start and red for Stop. We take this further and illuminate the Start PBs to indicate the motor is running when pressed (started). As far as flow...
Are you in a position to connect the motor in a 6 wire (inside Delta) connection? This enables a softstarter of approx. 1/2 the value of the motor current to safely start the motor. This causes the starter to only handle the phase current which is less than line current. Note that the soft...