Thanks for all of the replies!
The Baldor starter was selected because of it's availability - a good part of our production was down and we needed a replacement fast.
What I think we'll do is add an appropriately sized bypass contactor both to reduce heat in the enclosure and to give us a...
We recently had an old analog soft start fail which we replaced with a new Baldor digital soft start. This is driving a 100hp fan motor for a dust collection system.
The original setup had no input contactor on the line-in side (just a nearby disconnect) and also had no bypass contactor to take...
