Contrary to popular belief, small motors are not rated by output horsepower.
They are rated by input horsepower, how much power they consume. This, of
course, allows variation of actual output according to motor efficiency but,
for reasonable quality motors of the same type, there is not a lot of
efficiency difference. Volts * amps / 746
"AAvK" wrote in message
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143 7/8 horsepower. If you go as low as 143 3/4, you will not be able to
produce any serious work whatsoever.
Seriously, I have a 1 horse saw. I have ripped 2 inch thick liptus using
a
combo blade. Had to be careful about feed rate but didn't have any
problem
with it. More power would be nice but this works.


That's sounds alright and workin, but how does one find_out the exact
horse power of a motor?

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