brushless questions to prove a point

[BrianG]

I've always thought about torque vs HP like this: Torque is how much you can lift and HP is how fast you can lift it (or something like that).

What you say about the bolt tightening analogy makes sense. If you have a certain amount of torque at a certain rpm, you can "gear up" to multiply the speed, but torque is reduced by the same amount. HP should be the same no matter what "gearing" you use though since the same work is being done, just at different speeds.

And yeah, the 5252 thing is a constant, but can't remember what. I do know it does work though...

[myndseye]

I always considered horsepower a measurement of the potential to do work, not a measure of the amount of work being done.

[myndseye]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque

go to the "conversion to other units" section and read about the 5252