On Dec 11, 2007 8:04 AM, David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:03 AM, John Drescher wrote:<br>> Speaking of HP about 10 years ago something like this happened with<br>> electric motors. I mean for a 15A 115V outlet the biggest electric
<br>> motor you can have is around 3HP yet power tools (air compressors,<br>> saws, vacuum cleaners ...) all now sell models that are rated 5 or<br>> more "peak" HP.<br><br></div>This is the same sort of fraud as selling stereo systems based on
<br>"peak" wattage instead of RMS wattage, I suspect.<br></blockquote></div><br>So where are the lawsuits? Oh yeah, normally you can't get away with suing companies for using units correctly, even if they are not the units the public think they are.
<br><br>Steve<br>