This is why I didn't bother to look it up...
> Me: My recollection is that there
> are 700-odd watts to the horsepower.
> Derek: The conversion we use is 1 hp equals .7457kilowatts or 745
> watts.
> Ron: When I was in school it was 746 watts/hp.
> Wish I could remember the important things in life.
> Randall: Except that electric motors aren't perfectly efficient, and
> generally don't
> have perfect power factors, so volts times amps isn't necessarily watts.
> 1000 "volts times amps" (1kVA) per horsepower is a pretty good rule of
> thumb
> for motors in this range.
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