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Default Motor Horsepower

On 2011-02-09, Jon Danniken wrote:
If an electric motor with 80% efficiency is pulling 16A at 120V, what is the
horsepower?

Going by (16)(120)(0.8)/746, I get about 2 HP.

Is this right?


Sounds right to me.

i