On 11/2/2017 9:09 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

That electrical value is "power," but it's just *potential*
horsepower. If you measured actual, kinetic horsepower, in terms of
torque times rpm, it would be a minute fraction of that. If the motor
is stalled, there's no real horsepower at all.

I wonder if Sears started that practice? That was the first place I
remember seeing it.


It was the same guy that measured amplifier output in car stereos in the
70's.