PENGIRAAN KUASA TRAKTOR THE ENGLISH THE 550

FOOT-POUNDS OF WORK PER SECOND

POWER UNIT IS DEFINED AS

METRIC POWER UNIT IS MEASURED IN KILOWATTS HORSEPOWER

(KW)

1 KW = 1.34 IF

A LOAD REQUIRE A FORCE OF

20

POUNDS TO MOVE IT VERTICALLY A DISTANCE OF

FEET, THE AMOUNT OF WORK DONE IS

:
LBS X

WORK = FORCE IF
A

DISTANCE = 20 33

FEET

= 60

FT. LB

1000

LB FORCE IS MOVED

FEET IN ONE MINUTE, THE RATE OF DOING WORK IS

ONE HORSEPOWER, BECAUSE ONE HORSEPOWER EQUALS

33,000 1

FT. LB. PER MINUTE

THE

EQUIVALENT RATE OF WORK IN ONE SECOND TO EQUAL FT.LB

HORSEPOWER IS

1 HP = 33,000 WHEN

/ 60

SECONDS

= 550

FT. LB PER SECOND

WORKING WITH FIELD MACHINERY, WE USUALLY THINK OF MILES PER HOUR AND

POUNDS OF DRAFT.

FOR

THESE CONDITIONS THE FORMULA FOR HORSEPOWER IS

HP = ( FORCE,LB METRIC EQUIVALENT FORCE

SPEED,

MPH

) / 375 (KW)

- METRIC

UNIT FOR POWER IS KILOWATT

IS MEASURED IN NEWTONS OR KILONEWTONS

1 HP = 0. 746KW 1.34 HP 1 N = 0.225 224.8

LB FORCE FOR KILOWATT IS: KW EG. LB

1 KW =

1 KN =

FORMULA

= [ FORCE (KILONEWTONS)

SPEED (KM/HR) ] / 3.6

IF

THE DRAFT OF A TRAILING IMPLEMENT, SUCH AS A DISK HARROW, IS MEASURED AT KILONEWTONS AND IS PULLED AT A SPEED OF

11.1

KM/HR, WHAT IS THE DRAWBAR

KILOWATT

DRAWBAR, KW = ( 11.1 KN THE EG. A

KM/HR

) / 3.6

= 24.7 KW

FORMULA CAN ALSO BE USED TO DETERMINE SPEED.

TRACTOR IS PULLING A PLOW WITH A TOTAL DRAFT OF

22.2

KILONEWTONS.

HOW ?

FAST CAN THE PLOW BE PULLED IF THE TRACTOR HAS

50

DRAWBAR KILOWATTS

SPEED = 50 KW TO
DETERMINE DRAFT

3.6

8.1

KM/HR

22.2 KN

:
TRACTOR, SPEED

EG.

GIVEN 65 KW ?

KM/HR., FIELD CULTIVATOR DRAFT IS

4 KN

PER

METER OF WIDTH WHEN USED IN A GIVEN FIELD. PULLED

WHAT

WIDTH OF CULTIVATOR COULD BE

DRAFT = POWER,KW SPEED, WIDTH,

METERS KM/HR

3.6 = 65 KW 8
KM/HR

3.6 = 29.25 KN

= TOTAL DRAFT =
PER METER

29.25 = 7.3 4

METERS

DRAFT EG. IF

THE DRAFT OF A TRAILING IMPLEMENT LIKE A DISK HARROW IS MEASURED AT

2,500 ?

POUNDS AND IS PULLED AT A SPEED OF

MPH, WHAT IS THE DRAWBAR HORSEPOWER

(FIG. 7) DRAWBAR
HORSEPOWER HP

= ( FORCE,

LBS X SPEED,MPH

) / 375

= 2500

5 = 33.5

THIS

FORMULA CAN BE USED TO DETERMINE HOW FAST AN IMPLEMENT

COULD BE PULLED WITH A GIVEN SIZE OF TRACTOR

SPEED = ( DRAWBAR THIS

HORSEPOWER X

375 ) /

DRAFT

LBS

FORMULA CAN ALSO BE USED TO DETERMINE HOW LARGE AN IMPLEMENT CAN BE PULLED BUT AN

EXTRA STEP OR TWO IS INVOLVED.SIZE OF THE IMPLEMENT HAVE TO BE RELATED TO THE AMOUNT OF SOIL RESISTANCE.

DETERMINING THERE

TRACTOR SIZE NEEDED

ARE VARIOUS KIND OF POWER

 TRACTOR
A.

BRAKE PTO DRAWBAR

POWER IS MEASURED IN HORSEPOWER

(USA)

OR IN KILOWATTS

(KW)-

METRIC EQUIVALENTS

BRAKE HORSEPOWER
IS THE MAXIMUM POWER THE ENGINE CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT ALTERATIONS

BHP

THE ENGINE CAN BE HOOKED TO A DYNAMOMETER TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH BRAKE HORSEPOWER

CAN BE DEVELOPED HP

= 0.746 KW