Thread: HP to Kw - HELP

1 HP = 0.745699872 kilowatts


Google is your friend.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

1 HP = 0.745699872 kilowatts


Google is your friend.

I thought everyone knew that - without resorting to Google. Didn't you learn it at school? I did - over 45 years ago.

What are they teaching you lot at school now?

Originally Posted by p38arover

What are they teaching you lot at school now?

I now know how to break into cars, make crack and sell it on the streets ..... sorry was looking into the future generations .

Originally Posted by p38arover

I thought everyone knew that - without resorting to Google. Didn't you learn it at school? I did - over 45 years ago.

What are they teaching you lot at school now?

Google?
Google?

Didn't have puters at school when I was there.

Originally Posted by Fusion

I now know how to break into cars, make crack and sell it on the streets ..... sorry was looking into the future generations .

you must have taken business studies or entrepreneuralial skills

Originally Posted by p38arover

I thought everyone knew that - without resorting to Google. Didn't you learn it at school? I did - over 45 years ago.

What are they teaching you lot at school now?

I only learnt it to three significant figures, but then it was over fifty years ago.

John

just remember the factor is hp = 4/3 of a kw, close enough for government work. After 30+ years of compulsory metrication, some industries still use many imperial measures and will continue to as people like it, understand it, and it is used overseas by customers and suppliers. Horsepower is the classic example.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

just remember the factor is hp = 4/3 of a kw, close enough for government work. After 30+ years of compulsory metrication, some industries still use many imperial measures and will continue to as people like it, understand it, and it is used overseas by customers and suppliers. Horsepower is the classic example.

A few dates from the history of the metric system -

April 1795 - metric system finalised
September 1799 - compulsory in the area around Paris
September 1801 - compulsory throughout France
1812 - Napoleon rescinds metric system
1820 - metric system adopted in the Low Countries (Netherlands & Belgium)
1840 - metric system obligatory throughout France

But in everyday use, metric units did not replace customary units in France until after WW1, which brought almost everyone in France into contact with the government, which insisted on it. (Almost all industry became a supplier to the government and almost all adult men and many women served in either the armed forces or the government or a government supplier)

John