I’m confused about the meaning of this word. Is it how much a horse can pull translated into how much the engine can pull? Also, what is the actual “metric”? Why do we still use this? It seems archaic.
Also, what type of horse was originally used to get the measurement?
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It is indeed an archaic unit of Power (approx. 740 watts), but like many archaic units it survives because it sounds cool and only serves as a subjective comparison of “which is better”, so it’s actual objective value isn’t really important.
I don’t know if it’s even originally related to horses, but there’s probably a source on the internet that would explain.
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