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From: "roger_millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:17 PM
Subject: [canals-list] Re: Horsepower? Please clear my confusion.



> Also, when the BHP is measured on a brake dynamometer by manufacturers
> of modern cars (for example)it is measured on an engine stripped of
> all parasitic loads such as alternators, power steering pump and
> sometimes even water pump (the cooling water is supplied under
> pressure from the mains water supply into the dyno cell). Thus the BHP
> quoted by car manufacturers is significantly greater than that
> obtained at the road wheels after all the parasitic loads and
> transmission losses.

Is that the same as DIN PS? I thought SAE HP was without ancillaries and DIN 
PS was with, or have I got that backwards?

-- 
Niall 



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