Convert horsepower (mechanical) to watt
1 hp = 745.6998716 W
1 hp = 745.7 W
1 hp in every power unit
| nanowatt | 745,700,000,000 nW |
| erg per second | 7,457,000,000 erg/s |
| microwatt | 745,700,000 μW |
| milliwatt | 745,700 mW |
| foot pound-force per minute | 33,000 ft·lbf/min |
| BTU per hour | 2,544.4 BTU/h |
| watt | 745.7 W |
| kilocalorie per hour | 641.19 kcal/h |
| foot pound-force per second | 550 ft·lbf/s |
| thousand BTU per hour | 2.5444 MBH |
| metric horsepower | 1.0139 PS |
| horsepower (mechanical) | 1 hp |
| electrical horsepower | 0.9996 hp (elec) |
| kilowatt | 0.7457 kW |
| ton of refrigeration | 0.21204 ton |
| boiler horsepower | 0.076018 bhp |
| million BTU per hour | 0.0025444 MMBTU/h |
| megawatt | 0.0007457 MW |
| gigawatt | 7.4570e-07 GW |
| terawatt | 7.4570e-10 TW |
| solar luminosity | 1.9480e-24 Lsun |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 745.6998716 to go from horsepower (mechanical) to watt, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (W) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? watt to horsepower (mechanical) — 1 W = 0.00134102209 hp.
horsepower (mechanical) to watt — common values
| 1 hp | 745.69987 W |
| 2 hp | 1,491.3997 W |
| 3 hp | 2,237.0996 W |
| 5 hp | 3,728.4994 W |
| 10 hp | 7,456.9987 W |
| 15 hp | 11,185.498 W |
| 20 hp | 14,913.997 W |
| 25 hp | 18,642.497 W |
| 50 hp | 37,284.994 W |
| 75 hp | 55,927.49 W |
| 100 hp | 74,569.987 W |
| 250 hp | 186,424.97 W |
| 500 hp | 372,849.94 W |
| 1000 hp | 745,699.87 W |