Convert electric potential between volts, SI prefixes, and historical CGS voltage units with grouped result sheets that keep the base-voltage anchor visible.
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An electric potential converter expresses one voltage across the SI volt family and the historical CGS units that still appear in older electrical and electrostatics references. It is useful when a source value is written in microvolts, kilovolts, statvolts, or abvolts and you want one clean sheet that anchors everything back to volts.
This page converts a non-negative electric potential across microvolts, millivolts, volts, kilovolts, megavolts, gigavolts, statvolts, and abvolts.
That mix covers everyday electronics and power-system scales while still supporting the historical reference units that occasionally appear in CGS-focused material.
The converter first resolves the entered unit into volts. Every other value in the result sheet is simply the same potential expressed at another SI scale or in one of the historical CGS voltage systems.
Keeping the volt baseline visible helps when you need to cross-check a modern supply value against an older notation without losing track of the actual magnitude.
1 kV = 1,000 V; 1 MV = 1,000,000 V; 1 GV = 1,000,000,000 V
Large SI prefixes keep high-voltage values readable without changing the underlying quantity.
1 mV = 10^-3 V; 1 µV = 10^-6 V
Small-signal work often reads more naturally in millivolts or microvolts.
1 statV ≈ 299.792458 V; 1 abV = 10^-8 V
The historical CGS voltage units are included for older electrostatic and electromagnetic references.
Most modern component, power, and measurement work stays entirely in SI units. The historical section matters mainly when you are reading legacy material or comparing older CGS derivations against current SI-based expressions.
The grouped layout keeps those reference units visible without crowding the common SI values that most users care about first.
This calculator does not estimate current, power, resistance, electric field, or stored energy. It converts one voltage quantity into equivalent unit expressions only.
Use it as a reference and planning tool. If the next step depends on a circuit relationship, switch to the calculator that models voltage together with current, resistance, charge, or power directly.
Frequently asked questions
Because the most readable unit depends on scale. A value that looks awkward in volts may be much clearer in kilovolts or megavolts, even though the underlying potential is unchanged.
They are historical CGS-system voltage units. They are uncommon in modern component and power work but still appear in older electrostatics and electromagnetics references.
No. Power depends on current as well as voltage. This page only converts the electric-potential quantity itself between units.
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