• Tb0n3
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    671 year ago

    Wasn’t one unit of horsepower meant to represent sustained power, not peak power of a horse?

    • @gramathy@lemmy.ml
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      351 year ago

      Average, not necessarily sustained. Horse gotta rest at some point regardless of how much power it’s putting out

      Iirc it’s an average over 1 day (24hrs) without regard to rest. So even sustained a horse is putting out more than 1hp at any given point in time

    • atocci
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      101 year ago

      It’s supposed to be the amount of work a strong horse can perform over one day on average.