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Can you purchase the thermal overload protection for a motor separately as an add-on feature?

Thermal overload protection cannot be added to a motor after the fact.

For Underwriters Laboratories compliance, electric motors have to be furnished with a thermal cutoff (or thermal overload protection) in order to keep the motor from causing a fire if it gets too hot from either high voltage, high current, locked rotor or seized bearing material. It cannot be added after the fact because it needs to be integrated with the motor itself.