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superxpro12yesterday at 2:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Peak power is a number that can be manipulated. You just dump short circuit current into a winding. Even if that peak lasts for 1 microsecond, you can "claim" eye-watering horsepower numbers.

I wonder if we defined peak as sustained peak over 100 milliseconds, or some more meaningful number, what that would do to the claims. You aren't really generating meaningful torque over 1 microsecond.


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hshdhdhehdyesterday at 8:38 PM

Surely they measure output not input?