oops.

... rather than correct the faulty and confusing power/energy/work etc. terminology - done in haste ... there will be a more authoritative report with better data coming shortly... (if all goes as planned)


At that time, the motor was operated into a 10 HP dynamometer load at 1100 rpm. This power output is 7460 watts. The battery power available from the four batteries would have been 5454 watt-hours, had they been pushing a normal load until total discharge. However, with this kind of arc-discharge load, the total battery power consumed by the motor was less than 30 watt-hours actual. Consequently, the amount of work done was hundreds of time more than it should have been.

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