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How Much Horsepower is a Horse?
A video on YouTube. In Cars, a Krater category.
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The team sets out to build a horse dyno to test the actual horsepower of a horse named Big D and solve a 250-year-old historical mystery.
From the video
Answers: How much horsepower does a horse actually have?
- horsepower history
- dyno testing
- engine swapping
- mechanical losses
What it concludes
- James Watt's steam engine experiment likely exaggerated horsepower to sell more steam engines.
- Big D the draft horse pulled 1.16 horsepower on the first dyno test.
- After refining the dyno measurements and accounting for mechanical losses, Big D's crank horsepower rating is 5.7 horsepower.
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