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It would be best to get it from the motor nameplate, but if you don't have that here is one way

to go about
calculating it:
one horsepower is about 750W (actually closer to 745.7 but 750 is close enough for what we are doing)
7.5 * 750 would be 5625W, but while electric motors are quite efficient, they are not 100% efficient, so lets
make that 6000W
Since it is three phase we need to divide that number by the square root of 3 to get the power per leg.
6000 / 1.73 = about 3500
dividing 3500 by the supply voltage will give the current that is doing work.
For example if the supply is 480V, 3500/480 = 7.3A
But a motor is a reactive load and the power factor will be less than 1 so the get the actual current in the
wire divide the number above by the power factor. There actual power factor depends on various factors,
for a rough estimate we might use 0.85, giving a line current of 7.3/0.85 = 8.6A
at 208V; 3500/208 = 16.8
16.8 / 0.85 = almost 20A

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