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Brake horse power is the amount of engine power which makes it to the wheels. This is different from the actual output at the engine.

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Is brake horsepower different from horsepower?

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What is the horsepower of a Triumph America?

According to Triumph, it is 54 bhp (brake horsepower) @ 6,750 rpm. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, horsepower at the output shaft of an engine, turbine, or motor is termed brake horsepower or shaft horsepower.


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What does bhp brake horsepower mean?

Brake horse power is the power output of the drive shaft on an engine without the power loss caused by the gears, transmission, friction, etc. The actual useful horsepower delivered to the propellor or wheel is called the shaft horsepower. Its also called effective ,true, wheel horsepower as well as other terms. The term horsepower is is not a good measurement of power as there asre too many different systems of measuring horsepower. The current trend is to use kilowatts or megawatts.


What is the difference between brake horsepower and horsepower?

The difference between brake horsepower and horsepower or wheel horsepower, they are the same thing, is that brake horse power is the power produced by the crank. The wheel horsepower is the amount of power delivered to the wheels. Brake horsepower refers to the method used to test the engine. A brake is attached to the engine and used to maintain the engine at a constant RPM at full throttle. The delivered power output is then a simple calculation of RPM times torque. Horse power is based on the average amount of work that a horse could do in a day. It is taken to be 746watts. well you guessed it engine output is also specified in kilowatts so divide by 746 and you have horsepower. As stated above it is all the same thing. There is a difference between advertised horsepower and brake horsepower. Advertised horsepower is what a manufacturer will rate its engine/automobile/machine to produce. Brake horsepower is the actual measured horsepower, for example, of a motor on an engine dynamometer.


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What does brake in brake horsepower define?

What does the word "Brake" mean in Brake Horsepower?Brake refers to the de Prony Brake which was invented by Gaspard de Prony and used to determine engine torque and power. The device imposed known values for loads on the engine's output (crank) shaft (by wrapping a belt around the output shaft) in order to produce resulting specific engine rotational speeds in RPMs. Quantities for torque and horsepower were then calculated using simple formulas of mechanical physics (i.e., Torque = Force x Distance & Horsepower = Torque x RPM / 5252 ;using the inch-lb system). Horsepower calculated using this method is known as Brake Horsepower or bhp.


What does the term 'bhp' mean?

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How much brake horsepower does a 50 cc engine have?

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