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| Figure 10-4 Air disconnect switch with motor-operating mechanism. |

| Air-Break Switches |

| Air-break switches are essentially disconnect switches to which arcing horns or other arc-suppressing devices are added (Fig. 10-6). They are designed to interrupt limited amounts of current but not short-circuit currents. The interrupted currents may represent load currents or magnetizing (or |

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