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No more Horsepower(1) — DavidBroad — 25/01/2010 00:34:52 | I understand the use of horsepower in the EU is banned since the implementation of the EU Directive 80/181/EEC on January 1st, 2010.
Does this now mean we have to describe a Class 40 as a EE 1470KW Diesel electric?
Just a thought,
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No more Horsepower(2) — G King — 25/01/2010 08:47:39 | | No doubt some artificially employed, grossly overpaid, final-salary pension entitled , pen pushing HMG beaurocrat who couldn't get a REAL job to save his/her life will be poised to rigorously enforce this ridiculous "anti British culture" regulation, which our Supreme Leader has allowed in "on the nod". The rest of Europe will no doubt continue to adhere rigidly to all European rules, even if they go against national culture and national interest........... | |
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No more Horsepower(3) — vespa — 25/01/2010 16:23:26 | | You vill do ast you are told | |
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No more Horsepower(4) — vespa — 25/01/2010 16:25:31 | | How do you work it out Ps,Kw from Bhp? | |
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No more Horsepower(5) — Paul — 25/01/2010 16:51:31 | It will still be an EE type 4.
For round number purposes 1 hp = 0.75KW
More precision http://www.statman.info/conversions/power.html | |
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No more Horsepower(6) — Geriatrico — 25/01/2010 20:23:48 | Strictly speaking, taking everything down to the lowest level in SI units, shouldn't it be 1.47 Megawatts?
Didn't you just love those exhibitors who used to put an inane little sign on the front of their layouts declaring "Danger, 12,000 millivolts!" | |
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No more Horsepower(7) — fatwindsurfer — 27/01/2010 13:53:00 | Now then Mr King! I am that pen pusher that you describe so beautifully and my pension is HUGE which means I can do lots of kit building!
Nice! 36E | |
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No more Horsepower(8) — Geriatrico — 28/01/2010 11:37:31 | If the pension is that big Phil, aren't you tempted to contract out the building so you can get on with the operating, or do you get some sort of masochistic pleasure assembling all those little fiddly bits?
I take it yours is inflation proofed like mine, otherwise you might be singing a different tune a few years down the road.
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No more Horsepower(9) — peppercorn — 02/02/2010 13:31:27 | | As a working electrical engineer, taught in the late 60's to calculate in sensible units (CGS at the time, later more sensibly in MKS) I'll add how great it is to work in SI units rather than the old fashioned, out of date, irrational units so beloved by those who don't have to use them daily. I do acknowledge that, of course, like everything else in life we get used to what we use, for instance, an old friend who is a mechanical building services engineer, still thinks in terms of tons (of ice) when he's considering cooling a building, rather than kW of coolth. Give me kW, kVA and all the rest of SI any day of the week over the old historical units. Prefer psi to pascals, though! However, recently my wife has been allocated an allottment and the unit of land on the agreement is the pole. Hadn't heard of it since primary school in the 50's, and I seem to remember that it, together with rods, perch and other now arcane units were printed on the rear of those red exercise books. Happy days. | |
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