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Re: [ST] Power Units
- Subject: Re: [ST] Power Units
- From: Thomas Emberson <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:05:51 -0600
Nathan Maher wrote:
> It's just metric horsepower. The PS is actually a German designation
> for Pferdestärke which literally means horse strength. From my googling
> it's not really a recognized standard anymore so it's odd that Triumph
> quotes their power specs using it.
>
> Here's the official definition I found:
>
> PS
>
> This unit (German: Pferdestärke = horse strength) is still commonly used
> in Germany and central Europe, although not a lawful unit any more. It
> was adopted throughout continental Europe with designations equivalent
> to the English "horse power", but mathematically different from the
> British unit. It is defined by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
> (PTB)[3] (http://www.ptb.de/) in Braunschweig as exactly:
>
> 1 PS = 75 kp·m/s = 735.49875 W
yeah special appearance by me:
1 hp = 745.699872 Watts according to google, of course google does not
know about PS units :-)
back into hiding, (I am mostly reading about the new Sprint ST)
cheers,
Tom
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