kiloampere
Electric currentexact by definition
The kiloampere is one thousand amperes. It appears in electrolysis and smelting cells, welding equipment, short-circuit fault ratings and lightning stroke currents, which typically peak in the tens of kiloamperes. The factor of 1000 is exact, being an SI prefix.
Watch out: Breaker interrupting ratings in kA describe a prospective fault current the device can safely break, not a current it carries continuously. Confusing the two badly undersizes protection.
| 1 | 1,000 |
One kiloampere in every electric current unit
| 1.00000e+18 | femtoampere (fA) | |
| 1.00000e+15 | picoampere (pA) | |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | nanoampere (nA) | |
| 1,000,000,000 | microampere (μA) | |
| 1,000,000 | milliampere (mA) | convert → |
| 1,000 | ampere (A) | convert → |
| 1 | kiloampere (kA)this unit | |
| 0.001 | megaampere (MA) |
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