Electrical Calculators

How Electric Current Units Are Converted

Electric current units — microamperes, milliamperes, amperes, and kiloamperes — are all powers of ten apart, so converting between them is a single multiplication or division by the right factor of 1,000.

How Voltage Units Are Converted

Voltage scales through the same metric-prefix ladder as current — microvolts, millivolts, volts, and kilovolts — each a factor of 1,000 from its neighbor, covering everything from a sensor signal to household mains supply.

Converting Microfarads to Nanofarads and Picofarads: A Worked Example

Running real values through the capacitance converter's formula shows exactly how a single microfarad rating expands into thousands of nanofarads or millions of picofarads, and why datasheets keep switching between the three.

Why Milli-to-Micro Always Means x1000, Whether It's Capacitance or Inductance

Running the same milli-to-micro step through two unrelated converters — capacitance and inductance — produces the identical x1,000 scaling factor, revealing that the jump is a property of the SI prefix system itself, not of either physical quantity.

Converting Millihenries to Microhenries: A Worked Example

Real output from the inductance converter's formula shows how a 100 mH inductor becomes 100,000 µH, and how a common 330 µH power-supply inductor reduces to a fraction of a millihenry.