what is horsepower? how do you determine it? why is it called horsepower? can someone please just explain horsepower in general to me i’m so confused why doesn’t it have anything to do with horses? ):
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It’s for the same reason why LED light bulbs are marketed as 60W equivalent, because that is what the customer understands.
You are a farmer in 1910. On your farm you have 2 horse animals to pull a plow. You want to buy a diesel tractor. How powerful of a tractor do you need? What’s a Watt?
Horsepower is a unit of power that represents the kind of average power from a horse per day. One horse animal produces more than 1 HP for a little while but not 12 hours a day. You could get rid of your horse and replace it with a 1 hp water pump running continuously for example.
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