On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 03:16:24 -0400, Tom Gardner wrote:

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.

Ayup. Is that a real poncho or is that a Searz poncho?

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