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    Interruption of line charging current

    Why is it that a circuit breaker can interrupt thousands of amps of fault current, but not a few dozen amps of charging current? I understand that charging current - which is capacitive and more or less 90 degrees out of phase with load current - can arc across circuit breaker contacts. But...

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