***Questions are in bold font*** I’m redoing the electrical on an old 12″ craftsman thickness planer that I got for free. The previous owner had a lot of frightening wiring set up so much of it had to be replaced but I will be using the 3hp max rated motor starter that came with it(this should be fine slightly oversized right?). It has a 2hp single phase motor that will run on 240v. I will need to get a momentary on/off switch to accompany the motor starter. I have watched and learned a lot from this video showing the general schematic of my older style motor starter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyX95sW2FmQ&t=991s   Between minute mark 14:05 and 18:45 he shows 3 drawings depicting the off, momentary start button pressed, and momentary start button released positions. At minute mark 21:37 he shows an older style starter that is similar to mine. Although his is 3 phase and mine is single phase the idea is the same without the 3rd leg. Something that has me hung up a bit is that besides the overload protection portion of this contraption one purpose of these starters is to act as a larger magnetic switch that can be activated and deactivated by a much smaller switch. My motor will be drawing up to 12 amps when up and running. What is a bit confusing to me is that the starter circuit that runs from L2 through the coil and the momentary switch and finally returns to L1 will be connected to the same circuit that the motor draws 12 amps from. How can you get away with using a “smaller” switch rated at less than 12 amps if this is the case? The only thing that makes sense to me at the moment is that the circuit running from L1 through the contactor to the motor and back to L2 has much less resistance in comparison to the coil circuit going to the switch… am I correct in assuming this and that the amperage seen by the switch will ultimately be much lower than the amperage seen by the hot wires going to and from the motor because of the difference in resistance between the two? Thanks