Which risk increases when rapidly cycling a molded-case circuit breaker beyond its rated operations per hour?

💡 Explanation

When a molded-case circuit breaker is cycled rapidly, the thermal trip mechanism undergoes repeated heating and cooling cycles because of internal resistance, changing its calibration and causing degradation. Therefore, thermal trip characteristic degradation results, rather than the other failures which arise from overload current and arc fault conditions.

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