Re: Dyno Jet/Mustang Dyno
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Originally Posted by jimberg
The load on the engine also affects how much horsepower it can produce.
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Ah haaaa ... that finally lit the light bulb in my brain ... the measuring instrument itself is using up engine output in varying amounts ...
Back to the electrical meter analogy ... in the old days, some meters had so much internal resistance, if you tried to measure very small amounts of current in a working circuit, the very instrument you were trying to measure with, was using up part of that current to power itself, so you were never getting a true reading. 
Still you would think by now somebody would have come up with a fix for that type of error .... sounds like someone needs to figure out a different way of measuring HP on a running engine.
Excuse me, i have to retire to my laboratory   
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