Originally Posted by
Kitdy
It just occurred to me that even using kW and Nm, the specs in metric are still hybrid. rpm is not a recognized SI unit; ideally, we would have X kW @ X Hz.
It can be argued that the rpm is only a guidance and not actually the measurement. The power and the torque are both PEAK and so should be in SI units, but the actual revs where the peak were found are subsidiary to it.
I'm with MilesR, we need some snobbery
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