I have worked on equipment most of my life and still don’t understand.
nearly all energy put into an ice engine that isn’t lost as heat goes to spinning a shaft. please explain to me how i can tell the difference between torque and horse power?
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Torque = how hard it can turn
Horsepower = how fast it can turn hard
They are closely related to each other which makes it difficult to separate them. Horsepower is torque times distance over time. Its power, which is work over time. Work is force times distance.
A slow rotation engine can be very high torque, but low horsepower because it can’t apply that torque over much distance. You can have a low torque motor that spins super fast putting out decent horsepower because it’s applying low torque over a large distance.
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