What is difference between 1hp and 2hp motor?

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What is difference between 1hp and 2hp motor?

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answered Feb 9, 2023 by 2dompos (6,120 points)
The difference between 1hp and 2hp motor is in the power and torque it can provide.

A 1hp motor has less power and torque than a 2hp motor.

For electric motors and other electrical power applications, one horsepower is defined as 746 Watts, so a two horsepower electric motor is capable of providing up to 1492 Watts of power.

One horsepower equals 1.36 Newton-meters of torque at 5252 RPM.

A two horsepower motor would have 2.36 Newton-meters of torque at 5252 RPM.

A typical 1 HP 2875 RPM motor would have 2.49 Newton-meters of torque.

So the motor is 2 horsepower motor times that by 746 watts per horsepower and then, to turn this into regular SI units, and then multiply this 1 hour by 3600 seconds per hour and you end up with 5.4 times 10 to the 6 joules of work when you round to two significant figures.

Electric motors work and operate using principles of electromagnetism, which shows that a force is applied when an electric current is present in a magnetic field.

This force creates a torque on a loop of wire present in the magnetic field, which causes the motor to spin and perform useful work.

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